> > The fbcon is the Biggie!. But that is now some compiled into the kernel magic that > I'm pretty much at a loss to deal with. I installed xf86-video-fbdev and the > fbdev error is gone, but as others correctly said, that wasn't the problem. fbcon is the framebuffer console,i.e. a module that provides a console over a framebuffer device (as opposed to the VGA console). It shouldn't be an issue for anything X related. > The only thing I am 100% certain of at this point is there is a problem > somewhere because the box worked great up until I did the update on 10/8 and I > haven't seen kde since... > > I'm sure it's something simple that just needs to be fixed in the kernel or in > one of the modules. But I am equally sure that it will take someone much > smarter than I on the kernel or module at issue to do it :p Does you KDE work if you try to log in as a new clean user? -- damjan
