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The Orange Peanut

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Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 152

Anyone want to try to explain this strange behavior?

I'm running KDEmod with kdm as my graphical login manager.  When I boot up, if I choose KDE and then login my computer will freeze before the opening KDE banner (the one with the pictures that displays while KDE is loading, the splash screen I think it is called.)  However, if I load openbox, then close openbox, then start KDE it works just fine.  Any idea what the problem could be?  Its very odd.

When I say my computer freezes, I mean dead lock.  I can't ctrl-alt-fn to a terminal or ctrl-alt-bckspce to kill the X server.  I'm guessing it might have something to do with my video card because my card will freeze my computer in the same manner if I try to run any OpenGL application.  I'm using an AGP Radeon 9500 Pro and fglrx drivers from the repos, 8.05

Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

Re: Anyone want to try to explain this strange behavior?

Are those the official ati drivers, or the open source ones?
If they are the official ones, I have heard many stories about them not working.

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The Orange Peanut

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Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 152

Re: Anyone want to try to explain this strange behavior?

The open source drivers are way more unstable than fglrx

Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

Re: Anyone want to try to explain this strange behavior?

What problems do you have with the open source drivers?

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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Anyone want to try to explain this strange behavior?

Try deleting you ~.kde...

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JeremyTheWicked

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 193

Re: Anyone want to try to explain this strange behavior?

I am also running fglrx and I had similar problems. It seems to me that it is a kdm related issue b/c when I changed the display manager to gdm, the problem disappeared.

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