...And thus ends my experience with Kubuntu. At least for now.

[David Kramer]

Brendan wrote:

> Did you try installing the NVidia driver from their site?
> wget 
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.19/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run
> 
> sudo sh ~/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run -n -a 
> Let it edit your xorg.conf
> X should be good when you kick off startx
> To check for 3d:
> glxinfo | grep direct
> 
> If this all fails, you tried VESA and of FB?

I couldn't get past the first menu in the install, where I told it I 
wanted to install Kubuntu.


Having said that, last night I tried loading Fedora 7 i386, and had a 
similar problem, but much odder.  X wouldn't start, but I managed to get 
over to a tty where I changed inittab so the runlevel was 3.  I rebooted 
and did a yum -y update then rebooted again.

In the end, "root" could run startx successfully, but "david" couldn't. 
  When "david" runs startx, I just get a blank screen until I
Ctl-Alt-Backspace.

The stdout and stderr from root can be seen at
http://thekramers.net/tmp/goodkde_f7_root.eml

The stdout and stderr from david can be seen at
http://thekramers.net/tmp/badkde_f7_david.eml

I've posted this to the fedora list too, but I didn't see any errors in 
one that weren't in the other.

I find it odd that F7 x86_64 had no video problems, but i386 did, let 
alone root working but david didn't.

I might try a reinstall tonight with a lot fewer packages, but I don't 
expect that to fix it.


Thanks.

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