[Gllug] Black screen, probably a KDE fault.

[Dylan]

On Tuesday 31 August 2010, John G Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:32:37 +0100 John Edwards
> 
> <john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk> wrote:
> > Or try to force SuSE to switch from the closed source Nvidia
> > drive to the open source one, or use the VGA compatible driver.
> > I've not used SuSE for about 8 years and so don't know where
> > it keeps it's xorg.conf file.
> 
> It seems that nvidia no longer support the open-source driver. In any
> case, I'm getting perfectly good graphics.I'm being shown the logon
> screen for my sessions and all the graphics inside the program windows.
> What I'm not being shown is anything behind the screens. No theme, no
> panel, no ability to load any program I can't get at from my email
> client.
> 
> The only reason I can access my email is that it automatically starts
> when I start a session.
> 
> It's a system-wide problem, in that the same thing happens whichever
> user I log on as,

I would recommend subscibing to the opensuse kde list: 

opensuse-kde+subscribe at opensuse.org

Dx

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