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#1 2010-11-07 20:39:28
- Moab
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KDE and hal
Installed Arch recently, using Gnome desktop, I decided to install KDE to have a look at it, did a pacman -S kde and got it installed, changed my rc.conf to kdm instead of gdm, saved changes an restarted, now hal will not load and kde does not load the desktop, switched back to gdm in the rc.conf file and gnome loads fine, what shoud I do to get kde to load the desktop?
Just so you know I am really new to Linux.
TIA to all who respond.
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#2 2010-11-07 20:50:55
- eDio
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Re: KDE and hal
Gnome just doesn't need hal. The first thing, that comes to mind: are you sure, hal is present in the daemon list in rc.conf?
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#3 2010-11-07 20:51:22
- pickboy87
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Re: KDE and hal
Can you start KDE by changing it in the ~/.xinitrc file and then using kdm in the daemons?
Otherwise couldn't you just skip kdm and just use startx?
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#4 2010-11-07 20:52:56
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Re: KDE and hal
Hm, also hal is not critical for kde, AFAIK. Only some features depend no it, like mounting devices, etc..
It is better to begin with reading your X log.
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#5 2010-11-07 21:09:36
- Moab
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Re: KDE and hal
Thanks for your responses, most of them are over my head, I will do some reading.
@eDio, yes I am sure of that
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal network netfs crond alsa gdm)
I assumed hal was needed, when kde loads it just gives me a background and a terminal window.
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#6 2010-11-08 03:03:28
- Hyugga
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Re: KDE and hal
Did you try not loading hal???
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#7 2010-11-08 04:50:04
- Moab
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Re: KDE and hal
I started over, reinstalling now. I think I had a corrupt disc burn. Using the core install this time.
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#8 2010-11-08 13:45:10
- skunktrader
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Re: KDE and hal
I assumed hal was needed, when kde loads it just gives me a background and a terminal window.
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Sounds like you forgot to change ~/.xinitrc to load kde instead of xterm
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