Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

["Claudio Roberto França Pereira" <spideybr@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 13:53, Jeff Cranmer <jeff@lotussevencars.com> wrote:
> I'm attempting to bring up a new system.  Processor is AMD Phenom 1055,
> running on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard.  Graphics card is an NVIDIA
> GEForce GTX550Ti.
>
> If I start X with twm, the xserver connection is made, and TWM comes up
> correctly with three Xterm windows.
>
> I note that I get two errors reported,
> (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module "dri2" (Module does not exist, 0)
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 62: xclock: command not found

This is normal behavior. Don't know why, but nVidia drivers doesn't
use the dri2 module, I think it has it's own implementation or
something, you can safely ignore that, even if your 20-nvidia.conf
disables (or tries to) dri2.
The xclock error is also ok, you probably have twm emerged, but not
xclock. The default xinitrc (in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) tries to run
twm, 3 xterms and xclock.

>
> The first error is definitely on startup, but the latter could have
> appeared on exit.
>
> I have a file 20-nvidia.conf in the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d directory
> with the following information
>
> Section "Device"
>  Identifier "Device0"
>  Driver "nvidia"
>  VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
>  BoardName "GeForce GTX550 Ti"
>  BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
>  Screen 0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>  Disable "dri"
>  Disable "dri2"
>  Load "glx"
> EndSection
>
> If I add exec startkde to the top of the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file,
> then startx fails to start.  I get the same dri2 error as above, but
> also get
>
> startkde: Starting up...
> Connecting to deprecated signal
> QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
> kded(13865): Communication Problem with "kded", it probably crashed.
> Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did
> not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

You should not edit this file, you should create a ~/.xinitrc and add
startkde to that. Try again without messing with the default system
xinitrc and using your own. You need to let the system xinitrc run, it
will call yours afterwards.


> I verified using /etc/init.d/dbus status that the dbus service is
> running.  Same for consolekit.
>
> /var/log/kdm.log shows one error, repeated for each startup attempt.
> KCrash: Appication 'kdmgreet' crashing....
> KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly
> Server Terminated successfully (0).  Closing log file.
>
> Any assistance gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff
>
>
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