[ale] KDE mis-behavior

[Jim Philips]

My first guess would not be a KDE app, but a video driver. That would have
been updated along with the kernel. The fact the Gnome is okay doesn't rule
this out. KDE makes pretty different use of video effects and if you turn on
the extras would drive the video card harder than Gnome. Are there Fedora
user groups where this might be showing up? I'm on Kubuntu here. I'm usually
not the only peron to have a problem with a major update. I check the
Kubuntu forums to see.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

>  Just finished an update and rebooted. In all, 94 updates, including the
> kernel ( 2.6.34.7-66.fc13.x86_64 x86_64)
>
> Weirdness ensued.
>
> Up through account log-in everything was normal. Typed in password and
> screen went black, except for the white outline of the cursor.
>
> Ctrl+Alt+Del kept the screen black, but added white outlines of boxes for
> various applications, complete with names.
>
> On reboot shifted the session type from KDE to KDE (failsafe mode) and that
> seems to work. Running KDE 4.5.4. A straight gnome session also works.
>
> So, the following questions suggest themselves:
>
> 1. What particular KDE updated app might be causing this problem;
>
> 2. What is the difference between a regular KDE session and "failsafe
> mode?"
>
> Hints would be appreciated?
>
>  Sean
>
>
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