From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GkCQN-00015x-F8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:30:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAF4Soi0007108; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:28:50 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAF4Qi9B011489 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:26:44 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so923105nfb for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:26:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=pu1Exib/WM13EUdMq9BRDtuCKwAfZm+DeJgHtxLb8/exci592HLHG45f9YYh5Gn0VOE2U286cE28uWUrHKl4pNe3xl9+9exdY539KzoOcg/vlAAEmrJKQirWeL42g+kkVvGmr47PEQEegqKzRKgBzf3Grshx/aO9U2C8oTpCfYU= Received: by 10.82.152.16 with SMTP id z16mr153152bud.1163564804366; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:26:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.3 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:26:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640611142026tb30110fld17a4e05211d2ba5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:26:39 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot? In-Reply-To: <200611150030.kAF0UDHo001721@robin.gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200611150030.kAF0UDHo001721@robin.gentoo.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: beac2553f69e2fd1 X-Archives-Salt: 3051d376-8b19-461c-b89c-c92b76ab33d9 X-Archives-Hash: ddfe73e60a2dd0cc0b9bec6dd487e348 On 11/14/06, Daevid Vincent wrote: > This seems like a newb question. I've been using my Gentoo for a few years > now, and since X/KDE/Gnome/etc. never seemed to be quite stable, I always > booted into command lines and then manually 'startx' JICSH. > > But I find myself almost always doing that these days, so I suppose it's > time to make the plunge so that X starts when I boot up. I'm still a bit > worried about hibernation (which I don't have working anyways - yet), I > recall there were issues with nvidia and suspending to HD/RAM if you were in > X. That could be old news? For me, suspend-to-ram works better from X than from a console, using the proprietary drivers. In fact if I suspend from a console, the graphics card will fail to resume correctly. Suspend-to-disk may or may not work better for you from X. Neither of my systems are working with STD currently... > Anyways, I can't get this to work. When I boot up, the screen is BLACK. Not > just back-lit black, but like there's no power black. If I CTRL+ALT+1, I get > to a shell prompt. Hmm, is this a laptop? X/Nvidia can sometimes decide to drive only the external video instead of the LCD, which appears as the symptoms you describe. I guess this could also happen on a desktop if the graphics card has multiple outputs. Anyway, on the console, run "ps auwx | grep X" and make sure that X is running. Also check /var/log/kdm.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log for error messages. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list