KDE is completely messed up

[lakerdonald]

Oy,
Some Major issues here...
KDE is (as the subject says) COMPLETELY messed up. It is messed up beyond recognition. There are no scroll bars, no check boxes/radio boxes, no buttons, no borders, NOTHING. I've tried yoperconf and KDE Control Panel, but both to no avail. Here's what happened before all this happened:
while in console on irssi, my system started CRAWLING, so i rebooted (my uptime had been almost a week!) and logged into KDE, as always. Then everything was messed up. that's when i decided to play with yoperconf and kde control panel, and nothing worked. then i tried FVWM and one other, and the same thing was wrong. does anybody have any idea what the %$^@ is going on?
thanks a lot!
-lakerdonald

[lakerdonald]

okay, well i assume that the lack of replies means that nobody knows what i'm talking about? well lemme tell you some more:
i've recently installed fluxbox, ICE, and blackbox, same problem. so i figures that this is a problem with X. how do i reinstall X and all its components?

[krussell]

hello
best you create another user and see whether KDE is messed up everywhere. if yes, reinstall KDE from the installation disks.

[lakerdonald]

it doesn't work for root either, and it's not just KDE. I'm talking about reinstalling X. any ideas how to go about this.

[lakerdonald]

dear christ! this is the strangest piece of shizznizzlebam EVER. now it works. fine. i didn't even do anything. dear christ it's acting like windows
but still

-lakerdonald

[Muser]

probably was a video card issue, that somehow sorted itself out.

[lakerdonald]

i don't think a card as old as mine can really have issues. they've had YEARS to work it out lol (think: neomagic framebuffer)