Dustpuppy Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 (edited) What else to do with a fully functional system, but break it... I know I was daft to try 3d effect with a geforce 4 mmx card. But I didn't think it would trash my system! I went to the "3d" config. in mcc, was told my system could cope, and that compiz was being installed. Which it did. Then after restart I found that not only did I not have any 3d effects, but I had no window borders (in either kde or gnome), no shutdown options on logout, an erratically functioning keyboard, and all my fonts were completely different. So I went back to the mcc to disable 3d effects, only to find that now I was being told that my system couldn't do them, and the options were faded out. I tried restarting kdm, but nothing happened. I figured that the problem was compiz being my dm, so I did "urmpe compiz". I also uninstalled and re-installed kdm. This got me back some window borders (but not if I choose the theme "mandriva"), but no logout options and my fonts were still weird. I've managed to sort out most of the fonts, except for firefox: the fonts up the top (file..edit..view etc) and bottom (Done... Adblock etc) and the address bar font are all ENORMOUS and I can't find any settings in KDE or Firefox itself that will change them. This happens using gdm as well, the only change there is that I get logout options. I know it's my own fault, but (please) Edited November 12, 2006 by Dustpuppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Try running gnome-control-center. You can access alot of the fonts here for gtk related apps like Firefox, etc. Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted November 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 I couldn't find anything in the control center to help :unsure: Weird thing is, in Gnome the firefox fonts are fine, but I get the problem in Kaffeine (which I don't get in KDE). I still don't get how what I did caused this to happen :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 3, 2006 Report Share Posted November 3, 2006 Have you removed the hidden config files in your /home folder already? They might cause the problem. By removing them, everything will be resetted to the defaults. Maybe that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted November 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 Hurray! Getting rid of the hidden files sorted out the fonts problem, but I'm still not having any luck with getting the shutdown options under kdm. I'm running gdm instead, and hoping that's not going to create a problem with KDE... I'm also leaving 3d effects well alone now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oshunluvr Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 Hurray! Getting rid of the hidden files sorted out the fonts problem, but I'm still not having any luck with getting the shutdown options under kdm. I'm running gdm instead, and hoping that's not going to create a problem with KDE... I'm also leaving 3d effects well alone now! I had this problem also with kdm and compiz packages (among many other problems) on a 2006 installation and never figured out why I couldn't get the logoff option back. I eventually gave up and uninstalled all the 3d stuff and the option came back. Are you sure you uninstalled ALL the packages you installed? I don't know which one caused the problem. 3ddesk, compiz (all of them), task-3ddesktop are all that come to mind but I think there were six or seven packages in all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 (edited) As above....its probably more than one package... but in any/either case non of them will cause any harm by being installed (presuming they didn't overwrite libs) .. so its got to be something added to your xorg.conf and/or the Xsession line.... Im guessing its either composite extension in xorg or loading a loadable driver....(OpenGL) etc. and you can proabpy find the offerndor in the log file in /var/log/Xorg0.log or just shut down the dm (in mandr* /etc/init.d/dm stop) and startx from a CLI if this is working fine then its probably the kdm config or the ksm config is using a different Xsession line ps -ef | grep X root 2646 2640 0 Nov05 tty7 00:06:53 /usr/bin/X -br -dpi 100 -br :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-qM7fh2 this is different for XGL... so you just find that line and stick it back.... The trick is finding the right one :D tip find the line then do a recursive search like find ./ -type f -exec grep <XGL> {} \; where XGL is the name in the line you get from ps -ef| grep X Edited November 6, 2006 by Gowator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted November 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Solved by a re-install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 A reinstall is not a solution. Reason: it will happen again next time you over-react, and you will not know (again) how to fix it. Reinstalling Linux should be done only if you are totally unable to boot in any mode, and in no other case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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