On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > lately my system crashed, and since that time, the hardware handling > stuff in KDE seems to be broken. For example, when I plug in some USB > mass storage device, I get no popup anymore. The power management > applet says, that no battery is present. K3B says I have no optical > drives. And so on, and so on... If you login as a different (or new) user, does the same problem occur? If not, then probably some of your user config is corrupted and you can take the rest from there... ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.