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Offline Quddus

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updated to the new KDE and now my computer won't work
« on: March 22, 2013, 04:23:39 PM »
I upgraded to the new KDE 4.10 and now when my computer starts up it runs a check of everything and then it has me login however it doesn't move past the terminal mode. it won't go to the desktop

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Re: updated to the new KDE and now my computer won't work
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2013, 04:27:13 PM »
enter your username and password at the prompt and then enter startx

If you get and error at that point copy and post it here.




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Re: updated to the new KDE and now my computer won't work
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2013, 04:35:41 PM »
it looks like it's telling me it failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. and that no device was detected. also it's unable to connect to the x-server

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Re: updated to the new KDE and now my computer won't work
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2013, 04:40:53 PM »
it looks like it's telling me it failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. and that no device was detected. also it's unable to connect to the x-server




Check here: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,114334.msg975879.html#msg975879

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Re: updated to the new KDE and now my computer won't work
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2013, 04:57:30 PM »
i checked synaptic and i don't have any 173 installed but rather 304. the nouveau seemmed to work though

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Re: updated to the new KDE and now my computer won't work
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2013, 05:14:04 PM »
i checked synaptic and i don't have any 173 installed but rather 304. the nouveau seemmed to work though


Did you read this: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,114460.0.html    !

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Re: updated to the new KDE and now my computer won't work
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2013, 06:16:23 PM »
thanks everything seems to be working ok now :)