dapper settings has miscellaneous Display

[Simon Edwards]

On Monday 13 February 2006 11:22, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Saturday 11 February 2006 23:02, golfer wrote:
> > I upgraded Breezy to Dapper and in the System Settings - System
> > Administration selections is an icon for Display.  There's also an
> > icon for Display in the Personal selections list.  The one in the
> > Personal selections list works normally, but the one in the System
> > Administration opens a window with an error message:
> >
> > The module Display could not be loaded.
> >
> > The diagnostics is:
> >
> > Possible reasons:
> >
> > - An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned
> > control module
> > - You have old third party modules lying around.
> >
> > Check these points carefully and try to remove the module meantioned
> > in the error message.  If this fails, consider contacting your
> > distributor or packager.
> 
> One of those -- the crashing one =) -- is displayconfig from guidance. We're 
> working on getting it into shape before Dapper. The other one, the 
> unmaintained stock KDE one, should be removed. Displayconfig already is 
> superior with respect to features.
> 
> Could you run kcmshell displayconfig and see what the error is?

or even better, open a console and run:

    sudo displayconfig

that way you will see any exceptions.

cheers,

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