On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:34:17AM -0500, Carl Brown wrote: > On an old box, which rarely gets much attention since it usually "just works". > It's my fault, no doubt. I looked at the sources.list before I ran the > dist-upgrade, but it completely slipped my mind that the "testing" that was > on the box was still etch, and I should have changed "testing" to "stable". I > didn't, so now it's lenny. > > Now, kdm opens the login screen, apparently at the maximum resolution of the > monitor (1600x1200), but the video signal stops as soon as I log in. It > blackscreens, then kdm reloads the login screen. I checked the xorg.conf file > and tweaked settings, ran dpkg-reconfigure on it, and even tried running it > with the old config file. There aren't any glaring errors from the driver > in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the only error reported is: > > (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable > > The video card is: > > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01) > > using the tdfx driver. This is correct. The config sets it up to run at > 1280x1024 24-bit depth, which is also correct. The monitor is a Viewsonic > GT775. > > I have never seen kdm successfully display a login screen when X wouldn't open > a session. In my experience, if there's a bad X problem, kdm doesn't work > either. Any ideas? soudns like its a kde error, not an xorg error. look in $HOME/xsession.errors for clues. Also double check permissions on /tmp. Create a new user and attempt to log in as that user and see if the problem persists with that user. A
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