[ale] KDE mis-behavior

[Drifter]

This makes  sense.  It is entirely possible that KDE's "safe mode" does 
not enable the fancier video candy -- none of which I use anyway, so I 
haven't noticed the loss.

It is probably possible to get yum to list all the packages that were 
updated within the past 24 hours, but I'll be damned if I can figure out 
how to do that. The man page is somewhat less than helpful.

Sean




On Wednesday, December 29, 2010 07:31:25 pm Jim Philips wrote:
> 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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