newbie: forever plaid???

[geekchic]

Hi, I've switched permanently to Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I've switched themes in KDE and GNOME, and I run into the same problem when the theme is not default.

When I boot into X, occasionally the start up screen comes up plaid. :confused: My keyboard doesn't work, and the only thing I can do is press my power button for a hard shutdown.

I've searched on the forums for this, and I don't know what to do. My video card is an Intel Corp. (generic) 82810E CGC Chipset Graphics controller. Maybe that will help?

Thanks for helping out.

[evulish]

Plaid?

What I thnk is wrong is your XF86 got fscked up but I'm not sure. Some of these older guys can probably help fix it...

[Evil Jeff]

You can always hit control-alt-backspace to restart xfree86. Or you can hit control-alt-f2 to get to the next virtual terminal and type "pstree -p" (without the quotes) to see what pid (process ID) x/gdm/kdm is. Then type kill -9 pid to kill the process (replace pid with pid number). Then type kdm/gdm (whichever you use) or startx to get back to xfree86.

[geekchic]

I fixed it. Thanks for all your help.