KDE freezes on "initializing peripherals"

2002-04-30 Thread Phil Dibowitz
Hey all, I've installed KDE on my debian box (via apt-get) and when I fire it up it seems to work fine until I it gets to "initializing perihperals" at which point it freezes - and takes console with it. Nothing can be done at console. ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't kill X, virtual consoles can't be

Re: KDE freezes on "initializing peripherals"

2002-04-30 Thread Phil Dibowitz
Greg C. Madden wrote: Last time X-windows/KDE startup froze on me I found my fontpaths in ~/XF86Config-4 were configured wrong. I had just loaded Abiword & was trying to deal with Abiwords fontpath requirements. Fontpath issues can include anti-aliasing in KDE I think. I actually just figured it o

Re: KDE freezes on "initializing peripherals"

2002-04-30 Thread Phil Dibowitz
Greg C. Madden wrote: afaik, xserver-xfree86 is for Xfree86 ver. 4.x & xserver-svga is for Xfree86 ver. 3.x so I don't know if I am much help. I found that out later tonight - and switched backed to xfree4 and had some help making some configuration changes and now all is working perfectly! Thank