Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

[Mike Chandler <mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net>]

On Monday 07 November 2005 09:26 pm, Kent West wrote:
> Mike Chandler wrote:
> >Thanks so much Kent....the numlock light is "on" and stays on...you cannot
> >turn it off. None of the other (caps lock etc) buttons do anything.
> >(All this in KDE.)
> >
> >I think it has to do with the "newer" KDE version 3.4.2 which, when I
> >dist-upgraded caused all the problems here... the reason I think that is I
> >changed to  the "vesa" driver again, and go into X with Gnome...keyboard
> >works fine.
> >So--- the keyboard works fine in Gnome, but not in KDE. I guess that sums
> > it up.
> >Ideas?
>
> I'd try firing up KDE as a different user (or, if you don't have any KDE
> settings you with to preserve, rename/delete ~/.kde and ~/.kderc and/or
> other KDE-related files in your home directory). The problem may just be
> user settings, instead of system-wide KDE settings.
>
> --
> Kent

Kent, you are invaluable to this list, thanks a lot...
in my /home directory I have a
.kderc
...that is the only "file" like that I find. There is a folder 
named .kde...should I rename that too, as you suggest? 
Thanks