After Sax, kde dissappear and minimalistis gui appear

Hugo González Blanco

9 Jun 2005 9 Jun '05

18:02

Hello, After executing sax to adjust some video parameters (enable 3d, delete second monitor) on my Matrox G400, and rebooting linux, Kde had disappeared, instead it presents a minimalistic gui. As I had a backup of the original xorg.conf, I replace the file generated by Sax with this one, but ... nothing happen, the same gui appear, not kde. May any one help me? Thanks, Hugo.

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Joe Morris (NTM)

9 Jun 9 Jun

18:21

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Hugo González Blanco wrote:

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After executing sax to adjust some video parameters (enable 3d, delete second monitor) on my Matrox G400, and rebooting linux, Kde had disappeared, instead it presents a minimalistic gui.

There was a bug in 9.3 that caused this. Short answer- run YOU, there is an update out to fix this problem. Longer answer- use Yast to change your window manager to kde, and your Login manager to kdm. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

Jerry Feldman

18:23

New subject: [SLE] After Sax, kde dissappear and minimalistis gui appear

On Thursday 09 June 2005 2:02 pm, Hugo González Blanco wrote:

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Hello,

After executing sax to adjust some video parameters (enable 3d, delete second monitor) on my Matrox G400, and rebooting linux, Kde had disappeared, instead it presents a minimalistic gui.

As I had a backup of the original xorg.conf, I replace the file generated by Sax with this one, but ... nothing happen, the same gui appear, not kde.

May any one help me? Run Yast/System/Sysconfig Editor Click on Desktop Your display manager should be kdm

Click on WindowManager Your default window manager should be KDE. But, before you do that, startup in run level 3, or simply go to a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt F) Log in as root type init 3 type startx and see if you have any errors. Then to return to the normal GUI, just type init 5. The KDM login should give you a menu at the bottom of the screen (SuSE 9.3) for Session Type. Here is where you select your Window Manager. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Andre Truter

18:26

New subject: [SLE] After Sax, kde dissappear and minimalistis gui appear

On 6/9/05, Hugo González Blanco wrote:

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Hello,

After executing sax to adjust some video parameters (enable 3d, delete second monitor) on my Matrox G400, and rebooting linux, Kde had disappeared, instead it presents a minimalistic gui.

As I had a backup of the original xorg.conf, I replace the file generated by Sax with this one, but ... nothing happen, the same gui appear, not kde.

I had the same experience. It seems that SAX change the display managet to xdm for some reason. To fix it I had to go to a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1), log in as root and switch to runlevel 3 init 3 Then edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and change the DISPLAYMANAGER variable to "gdm" (you will need to change it to "kdm") Then save and swtich back to runlevel 5: init 5 I had to do this twice before it would stay on gdm. I am not sure what cause the problem. HTH -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

Hugo González Blanco

19:17

New subject: [SLE] After Sax, kde dissappear and minimalistis gui appear

Thanks all of you , problem solved. By. 2005/6/9, Andre Truter :

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On 6/9/05, Hugo González Blanco wrote:

...
Hello,

After executing sax to adjust some video parameters (enable 3d, delete second monitor) on my Matrox G400, and rebooting linux, Kde had disappeared, instead it presents a minimalistic gui.

As I had a backup of the original xorg.conf, I replace the file generated by Sax with this one, but ... nothing happen, the same gui appear, not kde.

I had the same experience. It seems that SAX change the display managet to xdm for some reason.

To fix it I had to go to a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1), log in as root and switch to runlevel 3

init 3

Then edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and change the DISPLAYMANAGER variable to "gdm" (you will need to change it to "kdm") Then save and swtich back to runlevel 5:

init 5

I had to do this twice before it would stay on gdm.

I am not sure what cause the problem.

HTH

-- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org

~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

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