IF YOU GET KDM-KDE4 not default display manager This is What I find to work

[Guest]

Today, after upgrading to 8.10 (woo!) and several hours of research I finally found out how to get rid of this problem =)

This is what I did

1) Start up in Recovery Mode
2)aptitude purge kdm-kde4
3)aptitude reinstall install kdm
4)depmod -a
5)dpkg-reconfigure kdm
6)type exit
7) choose dpkg from the menu
8) answer yes to all
9) drop to root
10) apt-get autoremove
11) find what your graphic driver is
12) uninstall all drivers for your graphics card
13) reboot
14) KDE LOGIN SCREEN!!!
15) Session Type = KDE
16) LOGIN!

[nrikze]

Re: IF YOU GET KDM-KDE4 not default display manager This is What I find to work

7) choose dpkg from the menu
8) answer yes to all
9) drop to root

What do you mean by choose dpkg from the menu? What menu?
What do you mean by drop to root?

PS. I'm a noob

[aged hippy]

Re: IF YOU GET KDM-KDE4 not default display manager This is What I find to work

One of the options offered is to dpkg <something> (i forget the command) just choose the dpkg option on the Menu.

dpkg re-configures and fixes broken packages.

A root command is another option, whereby commands are typed in.


Edit:

That will be 10: apt-get autoremove

[bturrie]

Re: IF YOU GET KDM-KDE4 not default display manager This is What I find to work

Thanks for posting this, I hadn't seen it when I upgraded. When I got the message KDK-KDE4 not...I planned to try something like "aged hippy" suggested. I rebooted in recovery mode, I was going to enter the dpkg option but then I decided to try the repair x-server option. When it finished, I selected restart an everything worked. That was much easier than I had expected perhaps it will work for other folks too.

[aged hippy]

Re: IF YOU GET KDM-KDE4 not default display manager This is What I find to work

I'm glad you got it fixed.

Would you mind editing your original post and putting "Solved" in the top line so that others know what to do?