KDE 5 Plasma is really beautiful and after installing it, it worked just great. i booted up the next day and the xserver said i no longer had the correct settings. i've been able to get it to work with Vesa but of course the display area is no longer 1920 x 1040 or whatever it's supposed to be.

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inxi -Fz
System:    Host: linux.local Kernel: 4.6.4-pclos1 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 5 Distro: PCLinuxOS
Machine:   Mobo: TAR model: A880GZ Bios: American Megatrends v: 4.6.4 date: 12/22/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon II X2 245 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2900 MHz 1: 2200 MHz 2: 1700 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: v4l,vesa tty size: 118x28 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.6.4-pclos1
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (77.8% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SH103S3 size: 120.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 12G used: 6.1G (55%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/root
           ID-2: /home size: 95G used: 84G (89%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.19GB used: 0.04GB (1%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 207 Uptime: 3:53 Memory: 1230.4/1998.8MB Client: Shell (bash)

When i try to run Synaptic, for example, from a Terminal, i get...

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synaptic
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
No protocol specified

(synaptic:14893): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

i've pretty much spent all day trying to set up the nvidia card correctly, but it seems that it only wants to work with Vesa at this point. i've begun to think i need a newer video card - lol, but this one was working just fine under KDE4, so i'm not sure really what to do now.

Have a great evening!