Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > For quite a while (at least since before FOSDEM which was in February) > but not for more than year I have some strange problems with GDM. > Today I digged a little deeper and also compared them with KDM and its > problems. > > The most important issue is that neither GDM nor KDM work cleanly > after system boot: [snip] > IMHO at least the above mentioned issues are of RC grade, but I'm not > sure where they come from exactly. Anyone else does have noticed > similar problems? Any hints for what to look for? I've investigated this and submitted bug reports for gdm and kdm: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586539 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586540 > Then auto-login in GDM doesn't seem to work neither on system boot, > nor after the XDMCP chooser quits (see list of workarounds above), nor > after issuing "/etc/init.d/gdm restart". But it did work after running > "dpkg-reconfigure gdm" (when I switched the default DM to KDM). I have not investigated that but you submit a bug report on it. > When GDM starts up, it seems to take very long (a minute or so) until > there is a (non-black) picture or even just a mouse cursor on the > screen again, even on quite new and not sooooo slow hardware (EeeBox > with Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz) On kvm "hardware" it doesn't take long for gdm to start up. > The last issue is possibly related but seem to be neither GDM nor KDM > specific: After GDM or KDM has been started or restarted, I always > have to switch back manually from analog input to digital input (where > the computer is connected to) or turn the screen off and on again > (Meh, I sound like IT crowd.) on at least three (identical) Samsung > SyncMaster 2343BW I had connected to that box during the last months. > Looks as if the screen blanks even before KDM/GDM are fully up and > running, to it is possibly related to the slowness issue mentioned > above. What does it do if you use xdm? Regards, Mike. > Regards, Axel
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