Preview KDE Live Won't Start Desktop

[Andrew Farris]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Garry T. Williams wrote:
>> The KDE Live Preview CD won't start the desktop on my Dell Dimension
>> E520.  The system is completely unresponsive and the display is blank.
>> I can boot to init level 3, but staring X results in a complete
>> freeze.
>>
>> The CD boots up normally on my Vaio laptop.
>>
>> How can I obtain diagnostic information?
>>
>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443240 
> 
> The best info you can get is gathered from /var/log/Xorg.0.log after you 
> try starting x, and from terminal output.  Use startx from runlevel 3 to 
> gather this:
> 
> startx &> startx-output.txt
> 
> Get the logs, and post them as well.  You can also get the output of KDM 
> when trying to start it manually from the terminal (it may be that X 
> works fine, KDM doesn't).

Also note that ctrl-alt-backspace should kill your active X session.  That is 
very useful for debugging when you use startx and get nothing but a blank, 
because it should let you kill it and get back to the text files (unless your 
virtual terminals are corrupted, so if you're using vga high res terminals you 
may want to turn that off to debug this as well, don't pass any vga= kernel 
parameters at boot).

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