There I was, sitting having my breakfast this morning (tea and some porridge before work) when suddenly my KDE4 crashed. I mean crashed, corrupt looking screen, and needed a reboot.

PC reboots and I’m given the evil flashing-prompt-of-death ™. No login screen.

After much tinkering and typing of commands I eventually gets a God awful, 640×480 login screen! Not only that, but my ENTIRE glorious desktop is 640×480! What the HELL…?!

After work I sat down to fix the resolution glitch. It seemed as though my Kubuntu 8.04 had lost sight of my nVidia drivers. After several attempts to rectify the problem I eventually uninstalled the nVidia drivers and installed envyng which seemed to do the job, but I still had to manually alter the xorg.conf file to add some monitor info.

My question is this: what happened to ‘Bullet Proof X’? My X certainly wasn’t bullet proof!

I bothered spending the two hours getting the problem fixed because I love Kubuntu. But, it’s episodes like this that move people away from Linux and over too the dark side.

Had I not had my EEE PC and wireless internet I would have been utterly lost…