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[Ralph Sanford <rsanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have now attempted to install SuSE 8.1 (twice) on to a desktop
computer.  The install appears to go OK, and afterward I can login as
root.  The users can not successfully login, either from KDM or from a
console.

This is a fresh install of SuSE 8.1 (both times).  The computer
previously had SuSE 8.0 which was working fine.  The install did not
automatically detect the Viewsonic monitor E773.  The E773 is in the
database but the install did not detect it.  I have manually set the Sax
parameter to E773 and also tried just using a VESA setup.  Setup was
attempted using modest settings 800x600x65k.

Root can login graphically from KDM or from console without a problem. 
As any user from KDM attempting to load KDE will hang after the splash
screen shows "window manager"; Alt-Ctrl- <- needed to recover. 
Attempting to login to gnome will hang with just a grey background;
Alt-Ctrl- <- needed to recover.  Attempting to login to Windowmaker will
show the basic 4 icons, no desktop and mouse buttons have no effect;
Alt-Ctrl- <- needed to recover.  Any user can login to Enlightenment
from KDM !?!?  And excepting the KDE menu in Enlightenment, most of the
menus are functional.

A user attempting from the console to startkde will recieve the
following messages (from memory):
xsetroot:   unable to open display "
xset:     unable to open display " "
xset:     unable to open display " "
xset:     unable to open display " "
Ksplash cannot connect to Xserver
Kdeinit:    aborting $DISPLAY not set

The computer is using a Matrox 450 card, Viewsonic E773 monitor, AMD
1100 and mostly SCSI, lots of memory (800+ mb).

Any suggestions or solutions to get users to login?

Thanks

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