Can't login using the graphical shell

[reubendt]

I newly installed Kubuntu 8.04 for i386 on VMWare 6 with the virtual machine like so: 128MB ram, 2 processors, IDE HDD (it's really SATA, but couldn't install grub previously in SATA mode), and 2GB disk space.
Each time I try to graphical login, the screen goes black, and it starts the login screen up again. Tried a console login and everything is fine. I did a kdm stop, then a startx, and got a bunch of errors.

expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: Line 70 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: Line 71 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: Line 72 of pc

The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: bad length in CompatMap
> Output file "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" removed
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

And then just the prompt. Can anyone help? Thanks!

[Jimmy Johnson]

Re: Can't login using the graphical shell

I wish I could help but I don't use VM cause it seems to have it's own problems, I use 13 partitions to install OS's for testing, they are only 5GB each but plenty room to install Linux.