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 -- No problem is so big that it can't be run away from.