No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

the dist-upgrade didn't yield anything. Any suggestions on how to easily purge kde3 and it's components and kde4 and it's? And then... any easy suggestions on how to reinstall kde4, only? I could try apt-get install kubuntu-desktop, but I don't think that'll do it for me.

[dibl]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

the dist-upgrade didn't yield anything.

What does this mean? If in a Konsole you enter

lsb_release -a

, what is the output?


I assume you followed this guidance:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ja...s/Kubuntu/8.04

?

[tom_d]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

I assume you followed this guidance:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ja...s/Kubuntu/8.04

?

hello dibl- tom_d from
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3104863.0
I did follow exactly those, and the mess I'm in is quite similar, but with ati issues instead- could you pop over and take a look at the thread please?
thanks

[barbolani]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

mmmm.... S3 is still ATI? I think so. I found this https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubun...ti/+bug/285603 bug, where it says that to make sure the ATI drivers are properly purged you should do:

1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
3. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
4. Restart X

Can you run this and post the results? And more importantly, if there are no errors running those, you could try the xserver fix later on,

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xorg-xserver

If you get errors when trying to start X, post your xorg log. I feel that none of us really knows what your actual problem is, we should try to be a bit more sistematic and change only one thing each time. Now that you're running with fresh HW this should be working again.

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

I'll give it a try. Previous video card was nvidia TNT. Current is S3, which I do not think is ATI, but I could be wrong. http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/ch...-series/km400/

LSPCI says:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01)

I'd like to uninstall all other xservers and just try this one
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

Supposedly, it's already installed, but how do I know if Xorg is trying to use it?

Or any other suggestions? Also, how best to do that?
Kurt

[dibl]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

AFAIK, S3 Unichrome is a very different GPU than ATI. You need the unichrome driver (from the repos).

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

Is there something special I need to do to install the KM400 driver fromt the command line? I thought installing the xserver-unichrome thingy, WAS the same as installing the driver....
Shows what I know.
K

[dibl]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

It looks like it is installed.

I dunno -- this new hal-driven video display is kind of different than the previous system, in which we diddled the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file interminably.

If you don't mind doing an experiment, you could (after shutting down X with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and issuing "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop" ) rename the hidden .kde file with

mv .kde .kde_bak

and then restart the X server with

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start

This will force generation of a new .kde folder, and might trigger it to recognize the unichrome driver correctly.

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

lsb_release -a yields:
Dis. ID: Ubuntu
Descr. Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

Doesn't seem to be Kubuntu, which it should be.
Kurt

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

As for my xorg.conf at this point -despite the diddling:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

[barbolani]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

petersk, I'd not worry too much about the KUbuntiness of lsb_release -a output. Mine gives exactly the same result and I can assure you that I'm happily running KDE 4.3 RC1 according to Konqueror.

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

I tried deleting the .kde, and that didn't work.
Additionally, I tried installing the XUBUNTU desktop, and I get the same problem:
It shows the login screen: one attempt to login returns to the login screen, two attempts just gives me a black screen with no control of anything and I must press the power button to power down and get out of it.
I CAN log into the console using the login screen -- it goes immediately to the console the first time with no previous attempt to login. If I had tried one time to log in, and then tried to go to the console, it gives me the black screen, which I can then press enter and it will bring me to the console login.

I can also use SSH -Y to use kde programs remotely (graphically).
Kurt

[dibl]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

Try (at a tty terminal with no X running) deleting the ~.ICEauthority file

rm .ICEauthority

Then

startx

Although, if you installed Xfce without removing KDE, I'm not sure which display manager is going to start .... :P

[petersk]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

That didn't work either; deleting IceAuthority that is.

[dibl]

Re: No GUI after upgrade from 8.04 KDE 4.1

That didn't work either; deleting IceAuthority that is.

I'm not sure how to interpret ... :P

You did delete the file .ICEauthority?

If it didn't delete successfully, maybe it has root privileges -- try

sudo rm .ICEauthority

When you ran startx, what was the error?