On Sunday 04 July 2004 16:31, Praise wrote:
Alle 13:29, domenica 4 luglio 2004, Leendert Meyer ha scritto:
On Saturday 03 July 2004 21:24, Praise wrote:
Alle 19:23, sabato 3 luglio 2004, Leendert Meyer ha scritto:
On Saturday 03 July 2004 18:39, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Leendert Meyer
[07-03-04 11:22]: On Saturday 03 July 2004 17:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Leendert Meyer
[07-03-04 10:32]: > > On Saturday 03 July 2004 17:12, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > after issuing init 3, startx will start kde, but init 5 > > > returns the same result. > > > > Perhaps it is a display manager issue. [gkx]dm does not run > > in runlevel 3, but does in 5. > > Should I change the display manager from kdm to xdm or ?? and > try 'init 3', 'init 5' again? Or should I reinstall kdm, can > I? I am grasping at straws here <grin>. If you do that, and the problem does not go away, than it is at least not specific to 1 display manager.
BTW, try 'startx', followed by 'startx -- :1' from another console. I like to know if you can run two instances at the same time. My guess is 'no'.
You are correct. See other post in this thread (answering Anders).
I just rebooted after changing parallel yes to no
This keeps the 'Starting ...' and their eventual error messages next to eachother. (Booting is slightly slowed down, but I can't tell on my pc)
and changing from auto-logon to not.
The 'welcome' screen shows and X hangs right there. I suppose it is doing the same thing that it did with the auto-logon but doesn't display the 'welcome' screen.
Tried again 'startx -- :1', with same errors reported previous. Something about failed to allocate decoder object ...
My believe that it's the nvidia driver gets stronger. But perhaps it's just permissions being wrong somewhere (/dev/* ?).
I am reading now this thread and I have to say that old Nvidia drivers are sometimes faulty. At least they did not work very well on my laptop giving me the problem similar to what you describe. I solved with a shell script which waited for 5 seconds after X hung up,
In what file did you do that?
I wrote my own init script that started after kdm. Unfortunately I do not have it any more because I do not need it, but it was very quick & dirty though.
Doesn't matter, I think I don't need it after all. Pat's problem is known on the NVidia Linux forum. Thanks for your reply, though. :) Cheers, Leen