Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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i love being the fourth one to answer!
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)...
Yep.
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).
That's what happens, yep.
I'll check on this ...without logging in, does the same thing happen if you go to console when the desktop manager is on screen?
To go to console, I was using the Ctl-Alt-F1 key combination. Is that the recommended way?
It has been working just fine. To my knowledge, I haven't changed anything. I was just going about looking at fstab and researching mounting my f: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....I've got an Asus GeForce4 TI4600 video card that's been running very well. I haven't got a clue about the X Driver. I'd need to know how to look that up.
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