On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:02:51AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a clone laptop running Debian 2.2r2. It has a silicon motion lynx > video chipset. > I have been running xf86 and gnome without any problems for some time now. I > really > don't like gnome so I installed KDE2.0. Here is where the strange problem > occurs. > KDM comes up fine. It starts logging in, when it gets to "loading panel" my > screen > turns off. The computer is still running, I even get the startup sound. Now > if > I change sessions to 2(ctrl+alt+f2) then press fn key + 'enable exterior > video connection' > key the screen comes back on with text only. Then I press ctrl+alt+f7 and > the KDE > interfaces comes up and I have no more of the screen going out. The weirder > thing > is that if I log out and log in as root KDE comes up fine, but only if I have > already > logged in once before and done those steps. Can anybody help with this? >
I had the same problem with my laptop (same chipset)...I reported a bug to KDE and nothing's come of it yet...I also don't remember what I did to solve it...I think I hard coded internal display only in bios...but it's been so long that I can't truely remember. Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
