Destroyed my Display

[Wilson, Richard E]

THANK YOU!

I renamed my ~/.kde and everything is working again... have to recreate
all my personalizations, but I can handle that.

The system is an old Compaq AP550 Workstation with an Elsa Synergy II
video card (32MB of RAM) which Linux identifies as an NVidia RIVA model
(has for the last several Fedora versions).  The display is a Compaq
7020 (1280x1024 default) flat panel.  From the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file, the driver is "nv".

Thanks again,

Richard Wilson

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Dieter [mailto:rdieter at math.unl.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:41 PM
To: kde at mail.kde.org
Subject: Re: [kde] Destroyed my Display

Wilson, Richard E wrote:

> I did find the list of available screen savers (only 2!) in
> /usr/share/kde4/services/ScreenSavers -- kblank.desktop and
> krandom.desktop.

Want more?
yum install kdeartwork-extras
 
> I then ran various other non-related tasks until late in the evening
and
> thinking that a reboot was in order, powered down the workstation.
> 
> When I powered it on this AM, I signed on as usual and got a blank
> screen where the KDE desktop should be -- a faint outline indicated
> where my usual xterminal window would be.
> 
> I am now operating under Gnome, which works fine -- at least this
> eliminates hardware issues.

renaming/removing ~/.kde and trying again would eliminate a large class
of
issues.

In particular, what video hw/driver are you using?  
Did you enable desktop effects?
Could be dbus fallout, try updating:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-11417

-- Rex

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