Help with KDE locking up

[genesus]

Hey all,

I've posted this problem elsewhere a week or so ago and still no fixes, so hopefully this forum will help. I have a problem initializing kde. When I log on in text mode I can ping and ftp and use the net. After I startx the kde load screen comes up and locks up during the "initializing peripherals" phase. This is a problem because if I boot with "nohotplug" kde loads fine but my net card and mouse do not work. This is a labtop so its not that much of a problem except for needing a network card. I am running slackware 10.0.

Oh, if I use SLAX, knoppix, damnsmalllinux, or any other live cd I do not have this problem.

Any ideas?

Thank you for you time

[sether]

what happens if you boot nohotplug but then start hotplug after you're in kde?

[genesus]

How do you start hotplug from kde? I didn't know this was possible?

[sether]

How do you start hotplug from kde? I didn't know this was possible?

i think you would just run /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug start from a terminal

[genesus]

thank you so much, I am going to try this as soon as I get off of work tonight!

[genesus]

Thank you so much Sether...It worked now I can really start cooking with gas!

[genesus]

Well it did work, but now it doesn't, when I start hotplugging I see the light for my comp show up on the router, but no internet connectivity, it worked in the morning but in the evening it didn't,

Any ideas?

[genesus]

For some reason though, fluxbox and all other xwm systems work, !?!?, not sure on this one...oh well I guess I can see KDE as not really needed, but still, I'm more used to that than fluxbox!