Dirk Uys wrote:
But when I try to start KDE4.2 (using kdm), the screen blanks out a
few times while kde is loading (the spash screen being displayed) and
then I briefly see a malformed desktop (the bottom of the taskbar
wraps around to the top of the screen) and then just a black screen.
In /var/log/messages, something about plasma crashing is reported,
can't remember and I'm not at the PC now, but nothing very
informative.
The screen flashes are an indication of trying to enable desktop effects
(compositing.) I think KDE 4.2.0 tries to enable them by default, but
it seems the auto-detection of your graphics card's capabilities is
failing. Would be good if you can file a bug report about on bugs.kde.org.
