Hi all, I have been running Suse5.2 now for about a month and I think it's just great. I've been running kdm so it starts at bootup. Anyway, I have somehow managed to bugger it up. I must have fiddled with something and now kdm doesn't work. It goes through all the boot-up stuff and then to the ascii login prompt where it tries to go into kdm. However the screen keeps flashing between blank and the login prompt really quickly (ie long blank, quick login prompt flash). I gather I've buggered it up and it repeatedly tries and fails to run kdm. I had to use my boot disk to run yast to go back to the ascii login and then rebooted. So now I can at least use linux without the graphical login. x-windows works fine using startx but I would like to get kdm running again. I tried it once again but it was still buggered. Does anyone know what I have done to bugger things up and how I might be able to fix it. I would like to avoid a re-install if possible. (I think a newbie's attitude is often if anything goes wrong then re-install. I am trying hard to get out of the Microshaft way of thinking so I want to avoid a reinstall). On another note, I want to thank all of the people that have helped me over the last few weeks. you have all been terrific. I am just curious as to the ettiquette of this mailing group with regards to thanking people. Should I post a thank-you note once I have got a problem fixed (what should I title it?). I have probably been a bit rude before not posting a thank-you but I thought it might be more kind to people not to waste the bandwidth. Any thoughts on this? Cheers, Brad. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at <A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com"><A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com</A">http://www.hotmail.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e