Thanx a lot, i did set the hostname and the domainname, KDM works fine
(well, nearly fine :-) ) :
KDE starts loading but freezes in peripheral stage, i guess i have a
hardware trouble, but this is another story

thanx again!

Mehdi

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:31:16 -0700, Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:03:42 +0000, Mehdi Elaoufir <melaoufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> >
> > >Didyou configure the hostname and domainname of your system?
> >
> > actually no, do i have to?
> 
> I'm not 100% on that one, but it does sound like a good idea. I don't
> remember a machine I used which didn't have this information and i use
> KDE a lot.
> 
> Also, if you aren't using the KDM, can you just put startkde into your
> .xinitrc and type startx? Does KDE work then? If not, you have other
> problems, not KDM problems...
> 
> Andy
>