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Listmates, I updated to the latest KDE last night from openSuSE BuildService on a x86-64 machine via yast and seem to have picked up a bug doing it. Graphics card is a ATI Radeon 9600 utilizing the 8.471-1 fglrx driver build. All worked fine before the update. After the update, normal users can no longer start KDE, but root can start KDE just fine. For a normal user, KDE startup first appears to be working fine. The splash screen appears with the little rotating circle and there is hard drive activity. However, KDE startup freezes when the first splash screen (with the animation) is replaced by the next green splash screen (no animation). This isn't a hard lockup because the mouse pointer still responds and ctrl+alt+backspace returns you to the kdm login. All other desktops continue to work fine (xfce4, etc..) so this appears to be a pure KDE issue. The Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old show the following differences: 14c14 < (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat May 10 09:43:20 2008 ---
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat May 10 09:39:28 2008 934,936c934,936 < (II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x2f8000 < (II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0x2f8000 to 0x2b22f5abf000 < (II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x2f9000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x2d2000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0x2d2000 to 0x2ad42832f000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x2d3000 950c950 < (II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0x002fa000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0x002d4000 1133,1134c1133,1137 < SetClientVersion: 0 9 < SetGrabKeysState - disabled
(II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button (II) fglrx(0): Shutdown CMMQS (II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x2d2000 at 0x2ad42832f000 FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
Is anyone else seeing this with the new KDE 3 updates? Does the problem look obvious to anyone? I'll keep investigating. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org