I've painted myself into a corner and need assistance. I'm running Mandrake 9.2 and saw an interesting radio button that I thought would improve my sound. I got the opposite effect - system hangs.

Logged in as root

Control Center > Sound > Sound System > Sound I/O (tab) > Enable full duplex operation.

I activated Enable full duplex operation and I can no longer load KDE when I log in as root. The system hangs when the KDE splash screen is up.

I'm fortunate that I can log in as a different user and I'm OK since Mandrake appears to apply this feature to the currently logged in user.

Does anyone know command line statement that I can use to remove the option when logged in to a terminal as root?

codegomer

Delete the folder .kde from your users home folder. It should have all your personal settings in it. Kde can then make a new folder with the default settings when you try to start it up.

Caeda - you da man! That worked. Problem solved. Another great Linux learning experience.

codegomer

For a little further info,
the reason your system (hanged or hung?) is ARTS was starting up , trying full duplex mode -- it hung when it couldn't figure out how.

Another way to do it would have been to unload your sound modules, then KDE would have started with a simple generic error about not being able to find /dev/dsp

--Shade