New subject: [suse-kde] Some(!) more KDE problems

25 Mar 2004

      Hi @ll,

Remember the probs I had with a crashing krandrinit when logging in as a 
normal user? Someone adviced me to check kcmrandrrc in the users home 
directory for the proper screen resolution. I checked this one, but it 
already contained the correct values. I tried to add a second set for my 
second screen but this also didn't solve the crash. Here's my actual 
kcmrandrrc:
...
[Display]
ApplyOnStartup=true
SyncTrayApp=true
[Screen0]
height=1024
reflectX=false
reflectY=false
refresh=89
rotation=0
width=1280
[Screen1]
height=864
reflectX=false
reflectY=false
refresh=92
rotation=0
width=1152
I manually added the section [Screen 1] and below. Locks quite normal, eh? 
The screen heights and widths are those physically present on my system. 
Any ideas?

Then: Some more quirks and probs I have with my system :-(

- A question: How do I permanently enable num lock on the login screen?

- I'm having a Compaq DAT Streamer and I try to do backups with the KDAT 
backup from the archive group. Unfortunately the proggie *never ever* 
recognises any tape in the streamer. I tried /dev/nst0, /dev/st0 as the 
tape device name. Though a tape *is* in the streamer KDAT always says "No 
tape". I also tried /dev/fd0 - just the same. Any idea why the backup 
doesn't recognize any media?

- I'm using CUPS to map a network printer residing on a printer queue of a 
W2k machine. When mapping the printer I'm giving administrator and its 
password for authentification at the bill OS machine. Printing then goes 
fine until I reboot the Linux machine. Obviously CUPS has the old user 
authentification "forgotten" and tries to use the guest account for 
printing. Actually I don't want to enable anonymous printing on the 
windows machine, just because CUPS is too dumb to remember the 
authentification settings. Any ideas?

- From time to time my Logitech USB-Mouse just stops reacting to 
mouseclicks (but is still movable) If I change to a console and back to 
KDE the Clicks start working again.

- I'm using a Matrox G450 video board. I've downloaded and installed the 
Linux beta driver from Matrox homepage. So far so good. When I start 
Matrox' Power Desk to adjust the screen settings it comes up with a box 
asking for the proper XFConfig. I'm giving the correct path & filename 
(definitely!) but it still says "Error: The specified file isn't valid. 
Please make sure the file name refers to a valid configuration file." Any 
idea why?

- I'm trying to test different screen savers to see which one I like best. 
There seems to be some savers which change screen resolution. Preview of 
this savers in the screen saver dialog box works fine but as soon as I say 
"Test" the system badly crashes: First the screen blackens (I suppose it's 
switching screen res), then it switches back to the old res, then X seems 
to start again and shortly after that mouse and keyboard freeze without a 
logonscreen, resulting in a dirty shutdown by having to use reset. If I'm 
fast enough and I manage to switch to a console during the restart of X I 
can try to log into a console but the shell isn't starting up. After login 
I can type characters after characters without ever seeing a prompt. Even 
Ctrl-Alt-Del is broken. It says it is initiating a shutdown but the system 
never ever goes down for reboot. Again knock reset before knocking my head 
on the wall... Any idea? Maybe a problem with the Matrox graphics driver? 
Any solution?

Alota troubles for a kde installation, any help is appreciated!

Thx

Peter

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