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Cc: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
Subject: Re: (6.1) KDE starts fine, "no" background(?)
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On Saturday 13 May 2006 09:49, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> Hello Family,
>
> First off, thanks to the FreeBSD team for yet another release and
> thanks again for the ability to install this new OS with floppies. I
> have a very good laptop with no CDROM.
>
> Now, I just installed, got X working fine, started KDE and the whole
> startup panels began, questions, etc.  Finished.
>
> But had "NO" background, just the toolbar appeared.  The apps work,
> just nothing but "black" for the background.
>
> This is a first for me since FreeBSD-3.4
>
> Thanks

I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. It turned out that an upgrade of 
X had overwritten my nvidia-driver. Rebuilding the driver solved the problem.

HTH,
David
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