I've got a pretty standard woody box, and I recently upgraded to the KDE2.2beta1 packages from unstable. I can log on through KDM fine, but once I'm in KDE and try to run a KDE program, my machine locks hard. Real hard. I can sync, unmount and reboot using the SysRq key, but ctrl-alt-bkspc out of X doesn't work, and neither does ctrl-alt-Fn to get a console. I'm running kernel 2.4.6, XFree86 4.0.3, with the NVidia GLX (version 1.0.1251-2) drivers compiled from woody. I'm also using the ALSA modules, version 0.5.10b-8, again, compiled from the testing sources. The odd thing is, KDE starts up fine, but running a KDE program locks it up hard. This also happens when I'm running E and start kmail. So far, the programs that cause the crash are known to be: NoAtun, KMail and Konqy. As you can imagine, testing this sort of thing is not the funnest type of thing in the world, but if anyone has something they want me to try, ask away. Based on the severity of the lock-up, I'm thinking that the NVidia drivers are causing it, because it definitely doesn't seem like something a user-space app could do. Another thought I had is that it could be ALSA. ALSA refuses to save or restore my volume settings on reboot and it seems that every second boot requires a '/etc/init.d/alsa force-reload; alsaconf' to get them to work at all.
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