On 04/29/09 10:29, Aaron Zang wrote: > But if not, as I mentioned in the previous email you can disable gdm and > enable cde-login, and boot from text, then I think you can get > everything you want.
No, it doesn't work. If you boot from text the screen is just a mess of wavy lines and remains unusable. If you boot from graphical, but with graphical login disabled, you get the eternal splash screen, but at least when you hit the return key the splash screen goes away. It is an annoyance with an easy workaround, so it hardly seems worth reporting as a bug, especially since it seems hardware specific. Didn't want to hijack your thread - the main point was that terminating gdm (or X) results in an unusable display and the only workaround for that, other than rebooting, is to ssh in from elsewhere and restart gdm (or X). This, too, seems to be hardware dependent, but the workaround is somewhat less easy.
