On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > I have come across a similar problem on an x86 machine with a G550 > DVI card, running Debian. I have a similar machine running RedHat > which does not exhibit the problem. > IIRC, on RedHat xdm dies if the X server misbehaves, and init restarts > xdm. On Debian, xdm retries the X server, and if X mis-behaves > often enough* xdm ignores that X session. > For me, I'm not sure whether the X server completed with the wrong > return code, or DDC on DVI meant that the xdm gave up waiting for > the server to restart.
I guess I forgot to add I am not using xdm or gdm. I boot to a console and "startx". I currently am using icewm. When I said I "log out" I meant I use the logout menu on icewm. This should return me to the text console. This is where I get the black screen. I can't switch consoles or anything like that because the display/console is hosed. > Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
