KDE 3.3 hangs after installing Radeon driver

Ezzy125 · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 9

Since I'm a newbie I got locked up in a nasty situation. After spending the whole weekend behind the PC, I was able to install gentoo-2.6.11-r3 fine. Got KDE to work with a VESA driver. Than I thought let's update my video driver for the real one. I have Radeon X300 video adapter.

I used the following guide; http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#2_kernelopts

After re-compiling my kernel and steps above I rebooted the system. Since than my KDE desktops starts does the first steps but than hangs with "Loading the panel 0%". Mouse is working but the system doesn't react on anything...

Please help, I'm completely lost now?

Thx

dusdus · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:19 am Post subject:

Your system hangs...but does it respond to Alt+Control+Backspace? It should shut down the X-server. You could check Xorg.log for any error messages, or you can even try "startx > error.log" to get some messages in a file instead of on your screen.

You could also try to uninstall your ati-drivers to get X working, try to get a solution for your problem and get the radeon driver active again.

good luck
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atom.galaxy · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

Helo!??? It's not X that's the problem here

If it gets stuck at loading the panel, it's definitely KDE's fault.

1) etc-update
run etc-update, it might be a config file. Although... I don't think it's highly probable.
2) revdep-rebuild
Try running revdep-rebuild (from the gentoolkit package: emerge gentoolkit), it might be a broken dependency.
3)re-emerge KDE
(sorry, i know it's a shit-sandwich but you're gonna have to take a bite). Try doing it when you're off at school / job or something...

Anyway, this is all I can think of right now. You can also try and emerge kde-base only (waaay lower compile time, however still above one hour.) do this if you mean to be at home when you set it to work. Otherwise, emerge-kde is gonna do fine.

I'm sure you noticed that my solutions are all like killing flies with a bazooka, but that's the kind of person I am.

Follow me at your own will.
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Jengu · Guru Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 384

atom.galaxy · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject:

Sory, my fault... I should have read that first post twice before posting. Sorry.

I don't get it... Why should KDE hang, and not X??? Loading panel... It's the last option, and I think that's where QT starts to get used. Might be a QT problem as well.
X is quite robust to my experience, and if it ever hangs it's the second you run it and not 10 seconds later???
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dusdus · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:38 am Post subject:

I suggested to read the errormessages, and the errorlog of xorg. Of course KDE also spits errormessages, which you could see after shutting down the x-server.
Good luck
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