FC5 + kde - cannot select screensaver - please help

[William W. Austin]

I have an odd problem.  I upgraded 4 machines (1 server, 3 production)  
from FC3 to FC5.  Everything went smoothly, but on 2 of the 4 machines  
there is one glitch.

For eactltly ONE user on each of these two machines (and it is not the  
same user), it is not possible to select a screensaver in KDE.  Using  
either the control center directly or by right-clicking on the  
lock-the-screen icon, the expected control module for the screensaver  
comes up.  HOWEVER, unlike for any other use on the same machine (or  
any user on the other 2 machines for that matter), the various screen  
savers are never discovered and offered as choices.  One of the two  
machines is a dual-core athlon x64 4200+ while the other is an athlon  
2500+ - all 4 machines have 1GB ram, large disks, and nvidia video  
subsystems (not the same on any 2), so that is about the extent of the  
common elements besides the fresh install.

On one of the machines I first tried re-installing the screensaver rpms  
and then finally ALL of the kde (and qt and ...) rpms to no avail.

This situation would not be so odd, but these were all FRESH installs  
with no previous user home directories there.

At this point I'm completely stumped.  If anyone has a clue as to where  
I should start looking to find the underlying cause, I'd really  
appreciate it.

-- 
william w. austin                               waustin at speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."