Am Montag, 8. März 2004 08:55 schrieb Mario Streiber:
On my two Suse 8.1 boxes (which are two absolutely different computers, even running with different kernels and different XFree versions) the screen is freezing occasionally when I am trying to log out or reboot.
Instead of the log-in screen to show up, the computer freezes with a black screen.
Is there anybody else having this problem or even a solution?
This is probably a graphics device driver problem. I have an ATI Radeon 7500 and I have this problem sometimes when having TV-Out enabled. Restarting the Xserver or switching back to text console sometimes freezes the display. The only way out then is pushing the reset button. You should check if there is an update for the driver available.
To prevent this problem at logout, add
TerminateServer=false
in the [X-*-Core] section of /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Normally the Xserver is restarted on logout. This entry should make the old Xserver stay alive.
Mario Hmm,
I disgree that this is a driver problem. I use ATI and Nvidia cards, different drivers - same problem. I use XFree 4.2 and 4.3 - different drivers - same problem. B.t.w. on KDE 3.0.x and 3.1.x the screen freeze does not show up. So I assume that the problem is related to one of the kdebase3 (or kdelib3) scripts... Astonishing to me is that this behaviour in not limited to my Suse 8.1 as Mathias was writing... Concerning your idea to set TerminateServer=false, that does not help really. If I logout more than once or select system shutdown, the freeze appears again. It must be a different kde-option causing the problem. Regards, Udo