Garry T. Williams wrote:
The KDE Live Preview CD won't start the desktop on my Dell Dimension E520. The system is completely unresponsive and the display is blank. I can boot to init level 3, but staring X results in a complete freeze.
The CD boots up normally on my Vaio laptop.
How can I obtain diagnostic information?
The best info you can get is gathered from /var/log/Xorg.0.log after you try starting x, and from terminal output. Use startx from runlevel 3 to gather this:
startx &> startx-output.txt
Get the logs, and post them as well. You can also get the output of KDM when trying to start it manually from the terminal (it may be that X works fine, KDM doesn't).