On 08/04/14 15:37, Chris Walker wrote:
It hasn't made any difference though. I can set the desktop settings by means of an icon on the task bar. If I go to that, it says the Window Manager isn't running. So I ran kwin and now most of the icons on the taskbar have gone to be replaced by crosses. The next thing I think I'll do is a backup. The last one I have is just before I did the upgrade from Mageia3 to 4. Once that's done, I'll investigate what's gone wrong and see what I can do about it. I have to confess that I'm giving serious thought to getting rid of Mageia altogether in favour of something else. It wouldn't solve the issue of the Radeon card directly as it won't change the hardware but it might at least be better supported in another distro. Anyway, enough chit chat. I have to take my grandson swimming now so computing will have to wait. Thanks very much for your help.
TBH, I'm not convinced it's a driver issue. Is there such a thing as a live cd for Mageia? If so, I'd be tempted to try it and see if the graphics card performs. I have a suspicion that it may be a corrupted configuration, and I'm not convinced that a new graphics driver will cure it. Maybe create a new user and log in to that user and see if their desktop works OK - if so, it's not the driver. That's just a hunch though - I've got nothing to support it.
Good luck. Steve