On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:48 am, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I'm having some odd problems with kdm and xdm on 9.2.
>
> If I configure the system to boot to kdm, it launches fine.  After entering
> a username and password, the dialog box disappears, showing the default
> background, then the screen blanks for a few seconds and then X restarts
> and I'm back to the kdm login screen.
>
> With xdm, I can login and launch a window manager just fine, but when I
> logout from the WM, I am returned to a blue screen with a partially drawn
> login dialog box and a frozen system.  None of the virtual terminals are
> available and I can't ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X.  The only way out is a
> hard reboot.
>
> I've tried reinstalling kdm but nothing changes.
>
> Any thoughts?
> Paul

Sounds like a video problem to me.  Is this a notebook with an ATI Mobility 
card, by any chance?

e.


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