On Wednesday 30 May 2001 10:39, Daniel Woodard wrote:
Everything works, I get on and mess around, but then, a little less than half the time, when I logout of X, it kicks out, the screen flashes, it's about to return to the terminal, then, poof, a black screen of death. A lot of the time, it makes it back to the terminal. I quit using the KDM, and I've been anal about quitting all the apps, and everything real nice, you know, try to sneak out real calm like. No effect.
Dear Daniel, I have the same problem on my laptop and thought it was just "because I am using a laptop" you know graphics chips being a little bit different etc, etc. Anyway there is a way round this - it's not pretty - but it works. When you are in KDE and you want to shut down change to a different terminal (Ctrl-alt-F1). Log in as root and then shutdown -h now. The computer will shut down fine (of course you lose the kde option to restore the desktop to its' current state) but you avoid that horrible crash. Jethro