when I open the command window from KDE, the text is screwy. teh root# text is fine, but everthing to the right of the prompt that I type in looks like, I press tab after every letter and random backslashes are inserted automatically. It does not effect the commands, they run fine and ignore the backslashes. It's just the visual presentation that I can't stand. Someone help me please. The rest of the visual environment is fine.???

Sincerely,
Luke

From reading your post it's not really clear what kind of problems you are having. But the random backslashes sound like you have lots of spaces in your filenames? The backslash just escapes the following character.
The following two commands would do exactly the same:

cd My\ Documents
cd "My Documents"

Spaces are used to seperate arguments so if you want the file name to be passed as one argument you have to either quote it or escape the spaces.

No. Thats not correct. This is what I mean.

l / s m o /d

Thats what I get when I type "lsmod"

I think that I may research this further myself, because when I played Tux Racer, it seamed a little slow, I don't think I've got the best graphics card. I have also had bad graphics with Gnome's desktop, but the terminal window in fine. Previously I had a problem with typeing in the Terminal window in KDE. I'm going to switch to blackbox. However, my video card is new, its a new computer, but I don't think its the most expensive video card.

Thanks,
Luke

Um.. I read this earlier and had absolutely no idea whatsoever.

Does it do the same thing *every* time?

ie. if you type lsmod you you always get l /o s m o /d
?

Your graphics card doesn't have to be the latest and greatest - believe me, I'm running a box with a 10 year old cirrus logic card in it.

You might want to try configuring the card to be a generic VGA using Xconfigurator. It's not going to look good, but if you get something up and running you can at least see if it works without problems and then deduce it's the X driver that's causing the problems.

Slick.

Still problems! I reinstalled RH8.0 8 times. Graphics keep sucking! They blur, melt together, and stick on the screen when the windows are closed. It sucks, it sucks, it sucks. I just wanted to update anyone who was interested in this thread. I have decided to go to a Linux "Install Fest" on January 11th and try to get them to deal with it.

Thanks.

Well, G'luck....

Sounds desperately like a Dali's nightmare if you ask me..
Although I still say it's your graphics card, and/or incompatible driver.

Re-installing RH isn't going to make a difference if it's going to choose the same driver each time round or your card isn't supported. Since you don't say what the card is, you don't tell us the driver and you don't report on wether a generic VGA does the same thing all I can do is with you luck with the fest'ing

Slick.

The truth is finally out. Those b*stards who sold me the computer included an 80 gb hard drive, 256 mb ram, cd rw, dvd rom and the worlds crappiest video card. I went down to the local computer shop, bought a cheap $37 34 mb video card and bye bye bad graphics.

Thanks.

see if you have another term program installed like kterm and see what happens then see if you can isolate it to a specific progam. also see if you can eliminate as many uneeded processes. open up a term and run top to see whats going on maybe somthing is hanging. I have the same problem but only with one term program when i run Konsole from kde. I haven't bothered to figure it out yet cause the other term progrm doesnt do it