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So, neither suggestion for kubuntu worked. Selecting KDE as the selection didn't do anything, and it blanked out again before showing the login window; and going in to the command line and using the startx command just ran through a long line of code before bringing me back to the command prompt again. I have no idea what's going on, and I don't really have anything on that partition it would hurt to lose, but it's still frustrating, and shakes my faith in Kubuntu somewhat, which is a shame as I was planning on making it my primary OS.
If you run the command "startx > output.txt 2>&1" and mail me the contents of output.txt, I can help you debug it. The problem is that there are just so many things that could possibly be wrong.
You could try reconfiguring xorg.
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Select the resolutions you want and try startx again.
If it doesn't work, then you can undo the changes with
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Dunno if it will help, probably won't, but it's worth a shot since you can undo it pretty easily.
Shoot, Ubuntu has been solid for me, but I don't know if Kubuntu is as solid.
thanks guys, I'll try to do that soon. I'm surprised, because I'd heard great things about this build, so.
Kubuntu 6.10?
Is this a case of it not working after install or distribution upgrade? Or is it a case of everything working okay and then just stopping?
Everything was working okay, and just recently it stopped, for no apparent reason. I'd been using Kubuntu for about a month before this happened.
Can anyone remind me of the cool Mac sites? Mr. Jane just got his first Apple. (We're going to take pictures later for the scrapbook).
SA, this sounds like your issue [link] .
For starters, try creating another user account and see if you can log in with that. If so, then I'd try what the link suggests and delete your dot-kde files in your home directory (the article talks about deleting the dot-gnome files, but this is kubuntu) (or at least move them elsewhere) then login.
Thanks, eddie. I'll give that a try and report back.
DJ, I'm not sure what you mean by cool mac sites, but here's a couple of good reference pages for good/essential mac software.
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and my personal favorite, open source mac: [link]
Yep. Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks SA!
