Clyde Wilson wrote:
[KDE dies when starting; Gnome works fine]. Yep, I've tried as other users. I've reinstalled the entire system, reinstalled kde. I've used startx, kdm and gdm, all with the same results. KDE comes up, starts the initialization and then comes down. Seems to blow on my mouse....
What type of mouse? PS/2? USB? Serial? Do you have gpm installed? What's the contents of /etc/gpm.conf? What do the pointer sections of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 look like? -- Kent