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hp tx1020ea slackware 13 can't start x-server

iv been working on this for a while now and im just not getting anywhere.... i type in startx and it comes up with the splash screen and shows the hdd icon but then it dumps me strait back into shell... the error it prints is...

Code:

kded(11105): Communication problem with  "kded" , it probably crashed.

Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not 

receive a

reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a 

reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply 

timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "



kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kcminit_startup

kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver

ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open 

shared

object file: No such file or directory

startkde: Shutting down...

klauncher: Exiting on signal 1

startkde: Running shutdown scripts...

kded(11106): "Error launching kconf_update. Either KLauncher is not 

running anymore, or it failed to start the application."



startkde: Done.



waiting for X server to shut down kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed

error setting MTRR (base = 0xd0000000, size = 0x04000000, type = 1) 

Invalid argument (22)

i have run xorgsetup but this did not help... am i doing something silly???

any help would be great!!! thx

ah ha!! i got xfce working!!!! by followinf this:

Quote:

Originally Posted by adamk75 (Post 3676503)

As your user, try this:

$ echo "/usr/bin/startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc

Then try starting X with:

$ startx

And see if X starts up with xfce4.

now to see if it works with kde....

dose not work with kde... to be expected relay.... as it didnt work befor... im assuming this means a bad install of kde???

From your original post, it looks like there is a library missing. Did you do a full install of Slackware?

yes i did a full install and iv just done it twice now... any idea what library it is?? and how to add it?

thx

Then I wonder if you got a bad download of Slackware. If I were in your shoes, I'd check the md5sum of your iso against what it is supposed to be (provided you downloaded Slackware). KDE should work out of the box without the need for installing anything else. The only other thing I can think is that if you installed Nvidia or ATI drivers, that might have screwed up the OpenGL libraries. Also have a look in your Xorg logs in /var/log and see if there are some additional error messages there.

will do.. il also re download the disks at uni where the internet is soooooo much faster.... thx for the help

ok i have managed to get the log file into a txt file so i can post it...

but its HUGE.... soooo im going to add it as an attachment

ok wtf!! a fresh download came back with an error on the MD5sum thing!!

Well, there aren't any errors in your X log, so that means X is starting up OK. That suggests the problem is in one of the KDE packages. The fact that you don't get the correct MD5sum isn't good. If you're not getting the download from either Slackware or LQ, where are you getting it? Also, you're downloading 13 and not Slackware-current, right?

i was downloading from mirror-uk but i went for the ftp strait from slackware and that work out well... just reinstalling now... il let u know how it gose :P and yer its slackware 13 :P

oh helz yer baby!!! /me dose a lil dance :P

it works it works it works :))))))

thx dude!! was much help!!

now to get wifi and touchscreen working... fun....

Cool. I'm glad it was the download, because if it wasnt', I had no idea where to take this one. Wifi will (hopefully) be pretty straight forward. The touchscreen, I'm not so sure about. For that one in particular, if you have a problem, post in the Slackware forum. There are some frighteningly good people that hang out there.

wifi took me alll day... was not easy... stupid broadcom...
just starting touchscreen now :P