Kent West wrote: > > When I boot into Debian on my PowerMac 4400/200, the xdm logon > screen pops up, but when I log in, the system thinks for a few > seconds, and then returns to the logon screen. It's not a > password problem, because I can put in a bad password and get the > same result but with a message saying "invalid login". That > message is not there when I use the correct password. > > If I Ctrl-(Command-?)Alt-F1 to the first virtual terminal, I can > log in and then start X manually with the "startx -- :1" command. > Apparently Debian PowerPC does things differently enough from the > i386 flavor that I can't quite sort out what's happening. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > -- > Kent West > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apparently it was some sort of video resolution problem. For different reasons, I upgraded my kernel from 2.2.16 to 2.2.17, and somewhere in the process the video straightened itself out, and now I have X working again. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
