adding psmouse to /etc/modules solved the problem. Thanks,
Christof On Monday 21 June 2004 23:04, Frans Pop wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 21 June 2004 21:53, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > On Monday 21 June 2004 14:32, m wrote: > > > On startup, it runs kdm, but then screen blanks and returns back to the > > > login prompt. > > > > > > After that i login as normal user and try to run from command line, it > > > says that: Only root wants to run kdm. If i login as root and type kdm, > > > it runs ok, showing the list of user and i can normally login. > > > > > > If i try running startx from command line, it runs kdm from any user > > > ok. > > > > > > Anybody has any suggestions why it doesn't want to run kdm but runs > > > startx? > > > > I've been having the same problem intermittantly on a fresh sarge > > install. The XFree86.log then reports some problem with configuring the > > mouse, although it doesn't always happen, when it does it drops back out > > the the boot prompt and I have to kill kdm and restart it to get in > > normaly (without startx). > > I had the same problems on two fresh installs. > > I have found this problem can be solved by adding psmouse in /etc/modules. > The problem seems to be that loading the module takes to long and X exits > because it can't find a core pointer. > I think that with psmouse in /etc/modules the driver is loaded earlier and > X finds it without problem. That's also why it starts correctly when X is > started manually: the driver has been loaded by then. > > Please let me know if my fix works for you as well, then I'll file a > bugreport against X on this issue. > > Cheers, > FJP > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA101agm/Kwh6ICoQRAn7DAJ92hDNukxoGT8vNn9TAiWVCGc6GtACbBGJ4 > F/XT5DI9LnKQLBR31qy0DvQ= > =NHbe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 D-30173 Hannover
