Federico Silva wrote:
> Hi experts! :)
>
> This was originally posted on newbie-list but it seems no one can
> help me
> so I (again) am doing cross-posting.
>
> Any help or hints is welcome
>
> -f.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Federico Silva
> Sent: mi�rcoles 28 de junio de 2000 22:04
> To: Newbie (E-mail); Expert (E-mail)
> Subject: X works but kdm not, why?
>
> Hi all,
> I recently installed a diamond savage4+ card in my system. It works
> OK.
>
> The problem is I can no longer get a graphical login. It just starts
> flickering ( is this the word? :) ) as if it tries to enter X and
> gets out
> and tries again and only ctrl+alt+del stops it so I boot in
> runlevel 3 now.
>
> Thats not big deal as I made a simple .Xclients script with all the
> config
> I need there and I copied it to all my other users homes and to
> /etc/skel
> and as I do not always use nothing more than a xterminal its OK.
>
> Problem is that if my girlfriend wants to show somebody how cool is
> her (our)
> new toy and how you can choose your desktop among several choices
> she won't
> even look to the script. Her profile starts X as soon as she logs
> in. :)
>
> *AND* I would like to see it working again or at least *know* whats
> wrong.
>
> I looked at the script that runlevel 5 uses to start the kdm or
> whatever
> you choose ( gdm or xdm , ... ) and undesrtood it ( I think ); it
> ends
> running your display manager of choice. So if I run it by hand it
> starts
> doing that damn annoying stuff again and I must reboot and ... grrr
> ?:-|
>
> Any hints or help is *MUCH* welcome.
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> -f.
Diamond gets awards for uncoopertiveness second only to Adaptec. Almost all
their X drivers are done without ANY help from Diamond. But it sounds llike
you almost have it.
Try xvidtune to see if you can get the display to behave slightly better. Then
you should have the full functionality again.
I do what I can. I sent one polite letter to Diamond, and one to Adaptec.
And the 30 or so machines I have direct responsibility for have no WD drives,
no Adaptec cards, and no Diamond products. They do have equivalents from
competitors who are more cooperative with open-source.
Civileme
