[ale] KDE mis-behavior

[Richard Faulkner]

I'm not a KDE driver but considering failsafe works it would be my
expectation your problem lies in video the driver.  I had tons of issues
with my Nvidia cards under Ubuntu 9.10 and never really got it
worked-out to my satisfaction.  Xorg.conf was a major part of the
solution in my case....and a black screen was one of the things I had to
fight through.  

Rich in Lilburn

-----Original Message-----
From: Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] KDE mis-behavior
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:54:42 -0500



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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