Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1983 mails)

[phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Philip Stokes)]

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Brad Jones wrote:

> 
>       When I boot up linux, it goes through all the usual stuff until it 
> tries to go into the graphical login (I'm using kdm). It tries to start 
> up the graphic login then flashes back to the usual text login prompt. 
> Then it again tries to go to the graphic login and then flashes back to 
> the text login prompt again. It just goes on continuing to do this until 
> I re-boot. Then when it starts up again the same thing happens. I can 
> fix it by turning off the graphical login and just using the text one, 
> and starting x manually but this is a pain in the ***.

Edit the file /usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers and remove the -quiet option
from the line(s) that start the X-Server.

Phil

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