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Trying to recruit an ancient Dell Inspiron 8200 back into active duty as a thin client.
I have X11 running in the default configuration with twm, started with startx. Seems fine. .xinitrc file was copied from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc per wiki.
To run KDE, I commented out the applications at the end of .xinitrc and added startkde instead per wiki, so the end now reads:
exec startkdeNow I'm first getting a lonely mouse pointer, and then a blank screen. No input of any kind seems accepted.
I have installed: xorg-server sddm plasma-meta
systemctl start sddmproduces the same result.
What am I doing wrong? I would have guessed that the graphics driver is a problem, but why would X11 run then?
Added: this is where we seem to be stuck. Not sure what those processes are.
403 jernst 20 0 3.7m 2.3m 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 S `- startx
425 jernst 20 0 3.7m 1.7m 0.0 0.3 0:00.01 S `- xinit
426 jernst 20 0 27.4m 13.9m 0.7 2.8 0:00.68 D `- Xorg
429 jernst 20 0 3.7m 2.3m 0.0 0.5 0:00.01 S `- startkde
464 jernst 20 0 60.9m 10.3m 0.0 2.1 0:00.07 S `- kdeinit5
465 jernst 20 0 0.0m 0.0m 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 Z `- start_kdeinit_w
466 jernst 20 0 2.1m 0.1m 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 S `- start_kdeinit
467 jernst 20 0 92.0m 19.3m 0.0 3.9 0:00.36 S `- kdeinit5
468 jernst 20 0 116.2m 25.3m 0.0 5.1 0:00.17 S `- klauncher
470 jernst 20 0 139.5m 37.9m 0.0 7.6 0:00.98 S `- kded5
490 jernst 20 0 64.7m 15.5m 0.0 3.1 0:00.08 S `- kscreen_backend
471 jernst 20 0 92.0m 12.8m 0.0 2.6 0:00.00 S `- kcminit_startup
472 jernst 20 0 109.8m 26.1m 0.0 5.2 0:00.16 S `- kcminit_startup
508 jernst 20 0 93.5m 21.2m 0.0 4.3 0:00.06 S `- trash.so Last edited by jernst (2015-07-28 22:56:09)
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