Hi,
I've been lurking on the list for a while but haven't really contributed
much because most of my time is still spent in windows and I don't
really have the same experience with linux as the regular contributors -
especially in areas like network and firewall configuration.
I've been using linux on and off for the last 4 or 5 years (can't
remember when I started exactly, but I remember the first distribution I
was exposed to was Mandrake). In that time I've used Mandrake,
Slackware, Debian and even dabbled abit with Linux From Scratch. Out of
those distributions, I know (and like) Debian the best, though Mandrake
is starting to grow on me.
At the moment I'm using Mandrake linux 9 (mainly installed it to see how
user-friendly it was compared to Debian - the installation is way
better, but I still prefer the package management in debian).
The computer itself is a Celeron 766 with 256mb ram, a dvd drive and cd
writer (both working great in linux), an SB Live! sound card (also
working great in linux), and an integrated i810 video card (took a while
to get openGL acceleration going, but it was worth it to play
tuxracer!). I'm in the process of configuring a Flyvideo 2000 (saa713x
chipset), but haven't quite got there yet.
Anyway, getting to my problem:
Whenever I switch from X to a console, X crashes, then KDM kicks back in
and throws me back to its login screen (destroying whatever X session I
had running). If I switch to a console from the KDM login screen (and
not while Gnome or KDE3 is running), X does not crash.
Has anyone else had this problem? Or fixed it?
I'm guessing it's most likely to do with the video card drivers.. but
then why doesn't it crash when I switch to a console from KDM?
Could this possibly be a memory issue? (The i810 shares the system ram)
The strange thing is, I'm sure this only started after I upgraded from
KDE2.2 to KDE3 in Debian. I can't think of any other major changes,
except changing from Debian 3 to Mandrake 9, though I am 100% that the
problem was present before changing distro's. The X server never died
while installing mandrake either, even though I was constantly swapping
to the console to view more detailed error messages when packages failed
to install (which happened quite a bit thanks to dodgy cd's from the
November issue of APC).
