Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3648 mails)

[Steven Hatfield <ashari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 July 2001 09:41 am, Cleary, Mike wrote:
> I can give it a try....
> Actually, I say I use KDM (since it is the current default choice
> in Yast), but I normally log in via the console.
>
>
> MIke
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Cleary_Mike@xxxxxxx          x6033
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Steven Hatfield [mailto:ashari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Monday, July 02, 2001 9:19 AM
> To:	Cleary_Mike@xxxxxxx; suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: [SLE] 2.4.5/nVidia
>
> On Monday 02 July 2001 08:35 am, Cleary_Mike@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'm using KDM and Nvidia drivers....w/o any apparent
> > problems...
> > What kind of problems?
> >
> > MIke
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Cleary_Mike@xxxxxxx          x6033
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From: 	Paul Abrahams [mailto:abrahams@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent:	Saturday, June 30, 2001 6:12 PM
> > To:	SuSE listserve
> > Subject:	Re: [SLE] 2.4.5/nVidia
> >
> > dids wrote:
> > > Similar : Im using std 2.4.5 from kernel.org, I just recompiled
> > > them and they worked fine
> >
> > Does the 2.4.5 kernel solve the long-outstanding problems with using KDM
> > and the NVidia drivers?
> >
> > Paul
>
> The problems are that the machine sometimes soft locks, and sometimes hard
> locks (ie. keyboard/mouse/video stop responding, but sometimes you can log
> in
> remotely and do a soft reboot).
>
> How I get this condition is to log into KDM from a fresh reboot, move a few
> windows around (do a few little things), and then log out of KDE. Then log
> back in via KDM, and then press ctrl-alt-F1, to go to a virtual terminal.
> Sometimes it doesn't happen right away, but usually after a few times of
> doing this, I'll get a weird colored screen, and I'll see the X mouse
> pointer
> in the middle, but moving the mouse will not move it. The keyboard becomes
> locked up (numlock/capslock keys do not affect the lights) and I have to
> reboot in order to recover.
>
> Can you get this to happen?
>
> Thanks,
> Steven

Yeah, if you start KDE2 via "startx", then you won't notice this problem.. it 
seems to be tied to KDM.

Thanks,
Steven