From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 19:31:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6704B4B9 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:31:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142BE8FC1A for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:31:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TjEVa-0008L5-E3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:31:50 +0100 Received: from pool-173-79-84-117.washdc.fios.verizon.net ([173.79.84.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:31:50 +0100 Received: from nightrecon by pool-173-79-84-117.washdc.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:31:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Subject: Re: KDE trouble, perhaps related to display wizard usage Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:31:31 -0500 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <1355416134.2606.34.camel@q> <1355424572.2606.113.camel@q> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-79-84-117.washdc.fios.verizon.net X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: nightrecon@hotmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:31:43 -0000 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 13:08 -0500, Michael Powell wrote about drivers. > > I tested vesa, ati and radeonhd before I posted my request. There where > tons of resolutions available and there aren't performance issues. Just > the frequencies are to low. However, at the moment I want to be able to > use GUIs on KDE, to get a panel back, that is always accessible. Perhaps > KDE gets broken, when I edited the panel settings, buy using the > correlated GUI. > OK - in spite of X supposedly being capable of true auto-configure these days I still use a hand-crafted xorg.conf to get what I want. That being said, this description gives me the idea that this is a KDE problem and not Xorg related, per se. Easiest way to test KDE is to either rename the .kde folder to something like .kde-backup and log out and back in again. You can achieve the same thing by creating another user account as well, and when you log in as that user you will be starting KDE config all over again from scratch. If problem disappears with this there is a botched KDE config somewhere. This also sounds vaguely like something I heard about wrt to some Plasma bug a version or two back in KDE. Don't recall exact details as I never experienced it. One time when I did have some small glitch I found when I renamed or deleted the ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc file and restarted KDE, starting over fixed my problem. YMMV Could also try Googling something concerning 'disappearing Plasma panels' and see if there are any hits on this as a Plasma related bug. -Mike