<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Solved!</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I ditched Kde and went with Xfce. Whatever was causing the null pointer problem when starting Kde either doesn't exist under Xfce, or Xfce doesn't care and is handling the situation gracefully.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Thanks,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Chris</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Russell Whitaker <russ@ashlandhome.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Chris Robinson <fabricator4@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Cc:</span></b> "xorg@lists.freedesktop.org" <xorg@lists.freedesktop.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 13 August 2011 7:54 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: X server crashing<br></font><br><br><br><br>It seems X does not check for null pointers so instead of doing something <br>gracefull it crashes.<br><br>If you are using parrallel ATA, there was a bug in PATA that was fixed <br>about 2 weeks after 13.37 came out. Suggest either change the kernel<br>config file to use the "obsolete ATA" instead of SCSI and recompile,<br>(remember also to change fstab from sdxx to hdxx), or get a newer kernel.<br><br> Russ<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>