[LUNI] [HELP] X Problem Since Update

[Arun Khan]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 21:26, Robert Smith wrote:
> Arun Khan <knura at yahoo.com> wrote:    
> On Wednesday 08 August 2007  20:12, Robert Smith wrote:
>
> ... snip ...
>
> >> Please tell me that I haven't lost my KDE desktop forever, and if
> >> anyone has an idea on how to fix this, I would sure appreciate the
> >> assistance.
> >
> > No, your kde configs files are in $HOME. KMail msgs are in
> > $HOME/Mail. Hopefully, your /home is mounted on a separate disk
> > partition.
>
>   /home is mounted on a separate partition. When I wrote this, I

Good.

> wasn't thinking that KDE and X are two different things. I don't get
> a graphic login screen now. Like I said, I'm somewhat new to this. My
> guess is that I correct the problem with my video driver in X, KDE
> will come back to life. Does that sound about right?

The X server provides the infrastructure for graphical display.  The X 
server by itself will just you the grey screen with the cross mouse 
pointer.  A window manager manages all the applications etc.  The 
script startkde invokes that KDE window manager.  Suggest, you read up 
an intro tut. on X window.

> >
> > The way I see it you have two options:
> >
> > a) Look around in /etc/X11 and see if the previous version of
> > xorg.conf has been backed up. If so, you can rename it back to
> > xorg.conf and see if it helps.
>
>   I ran an "ls' on the /etc/X11 directory, and I am showing two
> entries on my screen that look promising. One is "xorg.conf.old" and
> the other is "xorg.conf.original-x11-driver-finalize". There is also
> another entry listed as "xorg.conf.backup-x11-driver-finalize" but my
> guess is that this is a backup of the current X driver, in case it
> gets munged up for some reason. Now, can I just rename "xorg.conf" to
> "xorg.conf.old2"  and then rename "xorg.conf.old" to "xorg.conf"?

OK, looks like you want to understand where the problem is.  When you 
start X windows it complaints that there is no screen section.  Look in 
the older xorg.conf files (ls -l -t /etc/X11) for the "screen" sections 
and compare them with the active xorg.conf.  That should give you an 
idea of what is missing in xorg.conf.  Perhaps you can try hand editing 
the file and add the screens section and see if it works.

-- Arun Khan