11.4 Milestone2 X window failed to start from KDE liveCD

**oldcpu** · 01-Oct-2010, 05:19

Am I the only one to encounter failures in the 32-bit 11.4 Milestone2 KDE liveCD to boot direct to X ?

I booted my 32-bit Athlon-2800 with nVidia 8400GS PCI card to the 32-bit 11.4 Milestone2 KDE liveCD and it brought me to a login screen, with the option of user "linux" as the user. But selecting "linux" and trying various passwords (ie <enter> or other possibilities) failed to do a login. I killed the login, and went to run level 3 and logged in to run level 3 as user linux (sucessfully) but 'startx' failed. That happened both without 'nomodeset' and with 'nomodeset' as a boot code.

I then booted my wife's Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo 7400M laptop with the 'killer' Intel 855GM graphics. It booted to X, but there was no mouse cursor. None. The keyboard only partially worked, although every window I opened with the keyboard, was very quickly covered by the plasma on KDE4. Konsoles were only updated after repeated selection (via key navigation) and totally not useable. I could temporary get the plasma hidden windows back, but with seconds it was covered again. In essence, the Intel driver was not useable with this laptop and the 2.6.36 kernel.

I rebooted and tried the 'nomodeset' boot code. That took me to a login screen, and I had the same problem with this laptop's Intel 855GM (with 'nomodeset') that I had with the desktop with the nVidia 8400GS. ie impossible to start X.

I don't know if this problem was systemic, or if I was just lucky.

... I do not see any mention (yet) in the annoying bugs. openSUSE:Most annoying bugs 11.4 dev - openSUSE

So it was a zero out of two for Milestone4 thus far. Not one would run X window.

I may try a few of our other PCs at home.

**Wrath5000** · 01-Oct-2010, 07:58

I had a similar problem with the 64-bit KDE disk. I can log in to other desktop environments, just not KDE.

**oldcpu** · 01-Oct-2010, 08:02

Originally Posted by Wrath5000

I had a similar problem with the 64-bit KDE disk. I can log in to other desktop environments, just not KDE.

Hmm ... ok, this weekend I'll download the Gnome liveCD and see how it works.

**Wrath5000** · 01-Oct-2010, 08:42

I was thinking the same thing, or downloading the delta DVD.

**caf4926** · 01-Oct-2010, 08:45

Installed 32 bit M2 kde this AM
To be honest it worked perfectly, and so far not one issue.

**oldcpu** · 01-Oct-2010, 08:55

Originally Posted by caf4926

Installed 32 bit M2 kde this AM
To be honest it worked perfectly, and so far not one issue.

Installed from DVD ? liveCD ? If liveCD did you first boot to liveCD desktop, or install direct? What hardware ? On your Lap#2 with Intel 965GM ?

**caf4926** · 01-Oct-2010, 08:59

Lap 2
Live cd
Went to Live desktop

**oldcpu** · 01-Oct-2010, 09:09

Originally Posted by caf4926

Lap 2
Live cd
Went to Live desktop

Hmmm ... so KDE with 965GM works, but KDE with 855GM (intel and FBDEV driver) or KDE with 8400GS (noveau or nv driver) fails.

**caf4926** · 01-Oct-2010, 09:11

Originally Posted by oldcpu

Hmmm ... so KDE with 965GM works, but KDE with 855GM (intel and FBDEV driver) or KDE with 8400GS (noveau or nv driver) fails.

This laptop seems to work with everything I throw at it

**dth2** · 01-Oct-2010, 09:22

Didn't have too much luck here.

From the DVD I tried an install (on top of 11.3 updated to 11.4 m1) but couldn't get kde 4 to start (although kde 3 using failsafe worked).

Tried a fresh install of m2 but again couldn't get kde 4 to start and I then tried an install of m2 on top of a fresh install of 11.3 again without any joy.