Re: kdm not starting properly
Martin Eschen wrote:
Hello,
About a month ago my system has started to show the following
behaviour: after booting has finished the message that kdm is
started is on the screen. Instead of immediately being followed
by displaying the X screen (and switching to tty 7) I have to
wait for about 1.5 minutes before the screen switches to tty7 and
displays X. It then takes about the same time before the kdm
logon screen is shown. Before, it only took 20 seconds max or
so. When I try to logon into KDE, it seems the X server is
restarted (or at least only kdm is started again I am not sure
whether the X-server is also restarted.)
Before this started to happen, I had booted several times since
the last update using dselect without problems.
Debian testing, Kernel version 2.4.21.
NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-5336
[I] consider myself to be still a newbie :)
You consider yourself a newbie . . .
In the syslog after I enter runlevel 3 between 17:43:37 and 17:45:17
yet you're obviously advanced enough to tinker with runlevels, as a
default Debian system has a runlevel of 2.
I am stuck at the point where I do not know whether this is NVIDIA
related (NVIDIA error in XFree68 log) or kdm related (with the nv
driver the same behaviour occurs)
Easy enough to test. Just kill kdm. Run "/etc/init.d1/kdm stop". Now try
starting X with "startx"; if it works, you know the problem is in kdm;
if it doesn't work, you know the problem is in X.
Also, run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and specify the "VESA"
driver (just for testing purposes, not as a fix) rather than the NVIDIA
drivers, and see if X starts with "startx". If you've tinkered with
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 manually, this command may not work, in which case
you can just manually edit the file to make the change to VESA. This
will tell you if the problem is related to the NVIDIA drivers.
--
Kent
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