Fedora KDE LIVE system freezes up at boot time
by elisatems from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5RKS5)
Problem: the Fedora KDE LIVE installation system apparently tries to drive my graphics system (NVIDIA HDA + Samsung SyncMaster B1940MX) beyond its capabilities (max resolution 1280x1024). The system freezes up when booting into the KDE environment.
Workaround: select Basic Graphics on startup, which uses 1024x768 resolution.
Scope: all KDE Live media that I've tried, including Fedora Scientific 34 and 35 and the vanilla KDE Live spin v34.
Assumption: the problem is common to ALL Fedora KDE spins in at least the LIVE installation media.
Question: is the problem limited to the LIVE media or is it happening in the KDE startup process? I've determined after much experimentation under SL 7.9 that KDE works better for me than Gnome, but I will stay with SL for now if this problem is actually in the version of KDE that works with Fedora 34/35, and if there is no fix other than to set the display mode to 1024x768.
Workaround: select Basic Graphics on startup, which uses 1024x768 resolution.
Scope: all KDE Live media that I've tried, including Fedora Scientific 34 and 35 and the vanilla KDE Live spin v34.
Assumption: the problem is common to ALL Fedora KDE spins in at least the LIVE installation media.
Question: is the problem limited to the LIVE media or is it happening in the KDE startup process? I've determined after much experimentation under SL 7.9 that KDE works better for me than Gnome, but I will stay with SL for now if this problem is actually in the version of KDE that works with Fedora 34/35, and if there is no fix other than to set the display mode to 1024x768.