On 07/28/2014 05:53 PM, Robert Cunningham wrote:
I have a HP laptop that I have a dual boot (win 7 and Suse 13.1 that has System management Bios, on it. Everything was working fine until a Apper upgrade now KDE won't start. I am running KDE 4.13.3. Looking through the error messages on start up, I get a message that kdm is disabled by bios.
That makes no sense to me. The bios doesn't know about KDE. The bios doesn't even know about Linux. As i understand it the bios doesn't even know about grub. The bios only knows about the MBR. The MBR load grub. Grub loads the initrd. The initrd works some magic and LO! There is a running system and the init which is now systemd starts. Systemd start stuff the eventually runs kdm, or xdm or gd, and prompts for a login. The login has the option of which Dm you want to start, KDE, Gnome, e16, lxde or other. There are a lot of steps between the bios and kde.
I have tried going into the bios but there are no settings other than picking startup order of the drives, and a system check.
Right.
I ran the system check and it came back fine, I am using grub for startup, both windows and Linux starts up but no kde. I tried the desktop recovery mode start up with the same result. Any Ideas ?
There are many reasons why KDE won't start after an upgrade. They all get back to the X server not starting. Look for lines with "EE" in /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org