[ILUG] Strange - Monitor refuses to display KDE Desktop!

[Liam Bedford]

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Ciaran Mulloy wrote:
> 
> I have a really strange problem that I can't figure out, perhaps someone could 
> suggest what I should look at.
> 
> I installed Suse 9.2 as a dual boot OS on a Windows machine. 
> 
> The graphics card is a NVidia Riva TNT2 and the monitor is a Belinea 106020 
> 19" monitor.
> 
> The machine displays perfectly in Windows 2000. 
> 
> After booting into Suse 9.2 Linux the system come up with the user login 
> screen for KDE which it displays perfectly. 
> 
> On logging in and attempting to start KDE Desktop the XWindows fails to start. 

X is running fine. In order to get the user login screen, X must be up.
KDE is failing to start. As pbm said, check the errors in .xsession-errors.

Another way to check is to look at the login screen. Somewhere there
will be an option for a failsafe login. (In xdm it was finish your
password with F1 instead of enter, but gdm/kdm both have buttons to
press). When you login this way, you'll get an xterm. Nothing else. type
startkde, and see what happens.

Regards
L.
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