Hi folks,
I’ve got the following problem:
after I switching to the radeon driver with sax2 -r -m 0=radeon (the other drivers for my card don’t work, system freezing and so on) I can’t login to KDE. Everytime I typed in my username and password the screen went black and after a few seconds I got the login screen again.
My system: Dual Boot openSuse 11.2 / Vista.
ati Mobility Radeon 3400 Series on a one year old Medion Laptop.
Any suggestions? thx in advance…
I suggest you let the system find out first. So, at the login screen, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1.
Login with your username and password.
do:
su -c ‘rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf’
Enter rootpassword, then do:
su -c ‘init 6’
This would make sure that hardwaredetection would do the job first.
I will try that, but I think that failed already during installation.
btw login as root is possible.
I’ve just created a new user and it works. Seems there was something wrong with the system settings of the other user…
Here it returned functioning by removing the folders cache* in ~/.kde4 and ~/.kde4/share/apps/acitivitymanager
The latter didn’t exist yet in 2009, IIRC… 
And in this particular case it rather seemed to have been related to the desktop effect settings I’d say, as it happened after a graphics driver change.
But why don’t you just let this poor thread rest in peace? rotfl!