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i love being the fourth one to answer!
On Sunday 12 January 2003 08:41, Dave Bourassa wrote:
> Been playing around with my RH8.0 and I think I may have screwed
> something up. I do the ctl-alt-F1 to go into a terminal mode and it
> seems whether I sit there and do nothing but count the seconds or type
> away at whatever, about 30 seconds ( I timed it ) after I open the
> terminal it crashes out of the terminal and presents me with the RH
> logon screen again. I enter my user name and password and I find myself
> in KDE desktop with no terminal in sight. If I enter ctl-alt-F1 again
> the cycle repeats itself.
hrm... sounds like when the video card switches modes, X crashes. this
probably takes not more than a few seconds. the rest of the 30 seconds you
note is likely how long it takes X to die completely, the kernel to clean
stuff up, init to get control again, X to respawn and your login manager to
start up (which also happens to grab focus, ergo the annoying auto switch
from console to GUI)...
and of course, once you log in using the desktop manager you end up back in
KDE (since that's the job of the login manager). without logging in, does the
same thing happen if you go to console when the desktop manager is on screen?
> What could I have done to cause this? How can I fix it?
hard to say as you haven't given much info for us to go on yet... did it work
previously? if so, what have you changed recently, if anything?
also, what sort of video card and which X driver are you using? i know there
have been issues with a few vidcard/X driver combos and switching to the
console before....
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Aaron J. Seigo
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