[Gllug] Matrox P650, FC5, Gnome screwed

Ken Smith kens at kensnet.org
Sat Sep 16 23:37:11 UTC 2006


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:14:30AM +0100, Ken Smith wrote:
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>>{snip}
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>>Matpox proprierary driver thingy takes an axe to the system and 
>>certainly kills Gnome. I've run the Matrox de-install and put the 
>>{snip}
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>>So how to fix? Any Gnome experts among us or is it quicker to fdisk and 
>>start again.....
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>  rpm -Va > /root/verify.log
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>Finally, it could just be some GNOME config files which are corrupted,
>so if you've not customized anything that you don't mind loosing, then
>just rm -rf $HOME/.gnome* $HOME/.gtk* $HOME/.metacity* $HOME/.gconf* &
>$HOME/.nautilus
>
>Regards,
>Dan.
>  
>

Thanks Dan,

I've put an rpm -Va on to cook for the night. I''ll see how it looks in 
the morning

Ken

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