KDE Won't Start, Gnome, XFCE will

[Eric]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2008 13:17, Eric wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have Ubuntu 8.10 installed and I assume XFCE was installed when I
>> installed Ubuntu. They both start and run fine on my PC. I also
>> installed KDE. KDE will not start. I have booted into a terminal even
>> and tried to get it to start from there. I get an error that says
>> "Nvidia OpenGL driver requires CPUs with SSE to run." This seems strange
>> to me since Gnome and XFCE will run.
>>
>> Mandriva One which uses KDE 4.1 will also run on this same computer.
>>
>> Any idea what the problem might be or why the Nvidia drivers are ok for
>> everything I've tried except KDE on Ubuntu? I would prefer to run KDE.
>>
>> Eric
> 
> I have both Ubuntu, and Kubuntu 8.10 installed. It could be that you are 
> missing some KDE components, which may explain why it won't start. I've just 
> fires up Kubuntu, and there is a list of my installed KDE packages below.
> 
> kdebase-bin
> kdebase-data
> kdebase-plasma
> kdebase-runtime
> kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4
> kdebase-runtime-data
> kdebase-runtime-data-common
> kdebase-workspace-bin
> kdebase-workspace-data
> kdebase-workspace-libs4+5
> kdebluetooth
> kdegraphics-strigi-plugins
> kde-icons-oxygen
> kdelibs4c2a
> kdelibs5
> kdelibs5-data
> kdelibs-bin
> kdelibs-data
> kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
> kdepassword
> kdepim-kresources
> kdepimlibs5
> kdepimlibs-data
> kdepim-strigi-plugins
> kdepim-wizards
> kdeplasma-addons
> kdeplasma-addons-data
> kdeplasma-addons-libs4
> kde-printer-applet
> kdesudo
> kde-window-manager
> kde-zeroconf
> kdf
> kdm       (may not need that, as you have gdm as display manager)
> 
> All the best.
> 
> Nigel.
> 

Thanks Nigel. I'll check to see if I have this stuff installed.


Eric