Re: KDE 3.3.92 Strangness

From: Neville Cobb (npcobb_at_bigpond.net.au.invalid)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:02:46 GMT

Adolph Weidanz wrote:
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> Hey all...
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> I was running the kde 3.3.91 and had no problems other then a few of
> those already mentioned. So I upgraded to the new one using
> apt/synaptic. Here's where it get funny. If I start and go to the login
> screen my keyboard doesn't work. This is on a laptop. If I go to
> runlevel 3 and root=>startx it runs fine. I went into control center and
> told it to autologin to my user account. Rebooted and tried agian. Went
> into KDE, but no keyboard. I also noticed that the CPU was running at
> 100%. After some manipulations to get a 'top' konsole icon (keyboard
> still not working) on my user desktop it said that X was running at
> around 99%. I shut sown and went into runlevel 3, but this time I
> startx'd from my user login and things ran fine (with one exception I'll
> ask about later). So to summerize
> 1. Normal login=> mo keyboard
> 2. Autologin user => no keyboard, 100% CPU usage from X
> 3. RL 3=> root=> startx Things went smooth
> 4. RL 3 =>user=> startx things also went smooth..

Glad I'm not the only one with this. I delete the .kde dir then restart
the session to get keyboard back.

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