IBM Thinkpad T40 w/ ATI Radeon M7. I forgot to mention that "startx" works perfectly from the command line.
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 10:24 pm, E. Hines wrote: > 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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