KDE Won't Start, Gnome, XFCE will

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 21 December 2008 16:23, Eric wrote:
> 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

I had stopped scrolling down on Synaptic, when I hit send, and now see a bunch 
more packages. Most are individual KDE apps, but I also see the following.

kubuntu-artwork-usplash
kubuntu-default-settings
kubuntu-desktop

Bear in mind that this is on my Kubuntu 8.10 install, and I havn't tried 
installing KDE on the Ubuntu 8.10, as I want to leave it as original as 
possible, for the odd times that I try to help out with sound related 
problems.

I'll have to fire up Ubuntu 8.10, and see if the same KDE packages are 
available as I listed above, including the first lot I posted.

All the best.

Nigel.