Basil Chupin wrote: [Pruned]
But then Idid something last night which I now may regret.
Last night I checked the SuSE site and found that there were new updates to KDE rpms dated 26/8 so I downloaded and installed them. Everything seemed fine for the short period between installing the new RPMs and going to bed.
Today I boot my computer and several minutes later I got the BSD! While I was trying to read what the error messages were, the desktop came back but somewhat corrupted. I rebooted and things appeared to be normal until.....
In trying to get Kwintv to work I went to the module.conf file in /etc to see what parameters were set for the bttv option. I used CTRL-ALT-F2, logged on root and checked, and altered, the module.conf file for the tuner setting (which was reading -1 for some unknown reason). (I have to add here that I've edited this file in the past many time without problems). After the edit I pressed CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to the Desktop -- and ended up with a black screen on which tons of lines of scrolling tryint to dump some information from somewhere :-(. I hit the mouse button and the Desktop came up looking as normal as always. I repeated this process (going to F2 and then back to F7) and this time I caught a message stating something about a "kernel something-or-other"; I then pressed the mouse button again and the Desktop came up again. But this time I decided that I had better reply to your message before something else, more drastic, happened.
[Pruned] A few minutes after I posted my message I solved the problem spoken about above (re the BSOD). Installing the new RPMs somehow set/reset the damn screensaver to not only to be ON but also (?deliberately) selected the BSOD screensaver (which I didn't even know existed) and, of course, it was this which I kept seeing when I returned to the Desktop using ...-F7! What a fright. Thankfully I there is nothing wrong with my heart. Cheers. -- Understanding only begins with the act of perception.