On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 18:36, Edwin Humphries wrote: > My new fedora installation (fully updated) seems to be subject to KDE > dying - nothing I can do seems to resurrect it, and whilst I know > there is a way to open a new tty shell f4rom within an X application, > I can't seem to find it. > > What's worse, when it happens, it seems to kill the USB system: when > loading into Windows, it can't find the USB mouse attached, and seems > to require making a change to the USB settings in the BIOS. > > Weird! > > Edwin Humphries, > Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd > edwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > www.ironstone.com.au > Phone: 02 4233 2285 > Fax: 02 4233 2299 > Mobile: 0419 233 051 You will need to give much more information than that. (Sort of like calling the doctor and only saying 'I'm sick'.) Why don't you do this; 1) from the Grub boot screen edit the kernel line by A) adding a 3 to the kernel line to boot into "terminal mode". 2) As root run the command startkde and note what fails. 3) Post that information. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
