Re: things that kill KDE
I'm a NVidia girl too, but this is a laptop which only option was HD5650 (I think I'm done with HP)... waaaa. A search on HD5600 in 10.10 turned up exactly 1 hit (this one).
Is it truly possible that my video card is flawlessly compatable with Kubuntu 10.10 (3D, Compiz, compositing, IDL, thunderbird/firefox, Maple, IDL, and the usual cast of system apps) except for the startup of those two System Settings applets and Cantor? I'm stressing it, too - two monitors, the second one in the laptop's HDMI port work flawlessly. In every other distro where I've used ATI, incompatabilities with the video driver have much more pronounced and system-wide effects (black screen of death, no 3D, unexpected system freezes that aren't tied to anything obvious). I really could use Cantor, tho. maybe I'll move back to OpenSuSE for Cantor.
EDIT: I meant to ask about a system crash log file - is there anything like that which will record *why* KDE suddenly borked? like a segfault or something (would such be helpful?)
EDIT2: I was wondering, is there a nondestructive way to roll all system software back to the DVD? As I recall, everything worked fine up until at least that point.
I'm a NVidia girl too, but this is a laptop which only option was HD5650 (I think I'm done with HP)... waaaa. A search on HD5600 in 10.10 turned up exactly 1 hit (this one).
Is it truly possible that my video card is flawlessly compatable with Kubuntu 10.10 (3D, Compiz, compositing, IDL, thunderbird/firefox, Maple, IDL, and the usual cast of system apps) except for the startup of those two System Settings applets and Cantor? I'm stressing it, too - two monitors, the second one in the laptop's HDMI port work flawlessly. In every other distro where I've used ATI, incompatabilities with the video driver have much more pronounced and system-wide effects (black screen of death, no 3D, unexpected system freezes that aren't tied to anything obvious). I really could use Cantor, tho. maybe I'll move back to OpenSuSE for Cantor.
EDIT: I meant to ask about a system crash log file - is there anything like that which will record *why* KDE suddenly borked? like a segfault or something (would such be helpful?)
EDIT2: I was wondering, is there a nondestructive way to roll all system software back to the DVD? As I recall, everything worked fine up until at least that point.
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