Hmmmmm, I think I know what you mean. The same happens if you use yast to change resolutions after installation. After that and after restart of X (e.g. by rebooting) you get a grey login manager looking really really ugly. Indeed this is xdm, the worst graphical thing on earth (while working everywhere, though). Just edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and change xdm back to kdm. It's really a shame that this obvious bug was not found by SuSE Quality Assurance. I know 3 users (including me) which tried SuSE 9.3 and we all catched this one. Best, Daniel Am Montag, 2. Mai 2005 22:24 schrieb Andrew Williams:
Hi,
My system is SuSE 9,3 with a 32-bit processor. The Graphic card is a Rage 128. On Saturday (or Sunday morning) I applied the outstanding YOU Security patches. I think they were: - mozilla - MozillaFirefox - xli - qt3 - gnome-filesystem - acroread The kdebase3 update had already been applied by this stage.
The system worked just fine until I powered down. The next time I tried to use the system, startx took me into some other window-manager. The most important message (just after /etc/X11/xorg.conf was loaded) was:
(EE) R128(0): No DFP detected
Backing out all of the updates by reverting /home, /usr, /opt, /etc, /var, /bin, /sbin and /lib (maybe 1 or 2 directories more) fixed the problem.
Going forwards again was just the same - everything worked just fine after the update, until I powered down and restarted. Running sax2 did not help either.
Has anyone been confronted with this before?
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