Just installed 11.0 KDE and after updating/patching, upon restart it goes to the terminal instead of the desktop.
Not sure how to troubleshoot this, was curious what command I could type into the terminal to see if it will start the GUI Desktop, or if it will give me an error so I can post here for help.
So, what is the command to start the desktop from the terminal in 11.0 KDE?
Thanks
i think one of them is xstart and theres others but can’t think of them lol
The command is:
startx
If you just installed with KDE 4, be sure to update it to KDE 4.1.x. That may itself resolve the problem. To scroll the X server messages, from the command line as root do:
more /var/log/Xorg.0.log
opps that that looked funny when i typed it
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:46:01 GMT
tmcarson1 <tmcarson1@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Just installed 11.0 KDE and after updating/patching, upon restart it
> goes to the terminal instead of the desktop.
>
> Not sure how to troubleshoot this, was curious what command I could
> type into the terminal to see if it will start the GUI Desktop, or if it
> will give me an error so I can post here for help.
>
> So, what is the command to start the desktop from the terminal in 11.0
> KDE?
>
> Thanks
>
>
Sounds more like your video driver isn’t set up properly and you’re being
dropped to the text console.
the ‘startx’ command mentioned won’t help.
Log in as root, and try these commands:
init 3
sax2 -a -r -m 0=vesa
init 5
Which should bring you into the GUI system where you can more easily update
and install the proper drivers for you video system.
Loni
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