Hi I encountered the following two problems after installing Suse 9.3, which I suspect are caused by KDE 3.4: 1. On boot up the login screen is very different. I am presented with a plain white screen which states Welcome at Computername Login: Password: I don't like this login screen and prefer the previous one in Suse 9.2 which is more colourful. How do I change the login screen? Another problem is that in the lower left hand corner of the login screen is a console log for the computer. This xconsole stays open when I log on and needs to be closed manually. Any ideas on how to prevent it from appearing? 2. Shut down Clicking on Logout provides only one option - "End current session". Clicking on "End current session" returns me to the login screen. There is no option to shut down the computer. What needs to be done to ensure that the computer shuts down properly without me having to do it manually?
Mark, On Sunday 01 May 2005 07:19, Mark Panen wrote:
Hi
I encountered the following two problems after installing Suse 9.3, which I suspect are caused by KDE 3.4:
1. On boot up the login screen is very different. I am presented with a plain white screen which states
Welcome at Computername Login: Password:
I don't like this login screen and prefer the previous one in Suse 9.2 which is more colourful. How do I change the login screen?
This is a common problem. See http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/04/dregen_xdm93.html for the simple solution.
Another problem is that in the lower left hand corner of the login screen is a console log for the computer. This xconsole stays open when I log on and needs to be closed manually. Any ideas on how to prevent it from appearing?
2. Shut down
It's the same issue as the previous problem.
Clicking on Logout provides only one option - "End current session". Clicking on "End current session" returns me to the login screen. There is no option to shut down the computer.
What needs to be done to ensure that the computer shuts down properly without me having to do it manually?
Type CTRL-ALT-F1. Log in as root. Enter the command "shutdown -r now". Do this after applying the fix described in the aforementioned SuSE Support Database page. Randall Schulz
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Mark,
On Sunday 01 May 2005 07:19, Mark Panen wrote:
This is a common problem. See http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/04/dregen_xdm93.html for the simple solution.
The above SDB article is incomplete.
2. Shut down
It's the same issue as the previous problem.
Type CTRL-ALT-F1. Log in as root. Enter the command "shutdown -r now". Do this after applying the fix described in the aforementioned SuSE Support Database page.
See the response that I just posted to the SuSE Linux list. Steps 4c and 4d will eliminate the need to use the CTRL-ALT-F[1-6] method to shutdown the system. Well, you might have to do it once as the current KDE session has the old state. On the next reboot, KDE will be initialized with the correct values. Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard
Merton, On Sunday 01 May 2005 08:26, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
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See the response that I just posted to the SuSE Linux list. Steps 4c and 4d will eliminate the need to use the CTRL-ALT-F[1-6] method to shutdown the system. Well, you might have to do it once as the current KDE session has the old state. On the next reboot, KDE will be initialized with the correct values.
I answered his question, that's all. I think the OP understands that once KDM is restored there's a way to shut down from the KDM interface. The absence of such a control in xdm is what led him to ask, I believe.
Merton Campbell Crockett
Randall Schulz
On Sunday 01 May 2005 17:19, Mark Panen wrote:
1. On boot up the login screen is very different. I am presented with a plain white screen which states
control center -> appearance & themes -> splash screen control center -> system administration -> login manager control center can be found in kMenu (ALT+F1). -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:19 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
Hi
I encountered the following two problems after installing Suse 9.3, which I suspect are caused by KDE 3.4:
1. On boot up the login screen is very different. I am presented with a plain white screen which states
Welcome at Computername Login: Password:
I don't like this login screen and prefer the previous one in Suse 9.2 which is more colourful. How do I change the login screen?
Another problem is that in the lower left hand corner of the login screen is a console log for the computer. This xconsole stays open when I log on and needs to be closed manually. Any ideas on how to prevent it from appearing?
2. Shut down
Clicking on Logout provides only one option - "End current session". Clicking on "End current session" returns me to the login screen. There is no option to shut down the computer.
What needs to be done to ensure that the computer shuts down properly without me having to do it manually?
Check this link from the archives: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Apr/4133.html -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
According to a response from SuSE Technical Support this is their problem. The change occurred, most likely, when you used SaX2 to change or modify your monitor and graphic card settings. The easiest way to fix this problem is to use YaST. (1) In the left-hand menu panel, select "System". (2) Select "/etc/sysconfig Editor" in the System panel. (3) In the "/etc/sysconfig Editor" navigation panel, click on the icon to the left of "Desktop" to expand the tree. (4) Click on the icon to the left of "Display Manager". (a) Click on DISPLAYMANAGER. (b) Select "kdm" from the drop-down list. (c) Click on KDM_SHUTDOWN. (d) Select "all" from the drop-down list. (5) Click on the icon to the left of "Window Manager". (a) Click on DEFAULT_WM. (b) Select "kde" from the drop-down list. (6) Click the "Finish" button on the YaST window frame. You may want to check other "Display Manager" and "Window Manager" values to determine if they look reasonable. On Sun, 1 May 2005, Mark Panen wrote:
Hi
I encountered the following two problems after installing Suse 9.3, which I suspect are caused by KDE 3.4:
1. On boot up the login screen is very different. I am presented with a plain white screen which states
Welcome at Computername Login: Password:
I don't like this login screen and prefer the previous one in Suse 9.2 which is more colourful. How do I change the login screen?
This is corrected by steps 4a, 4b, 5a, and 5b.
Another problem is that in the lower left hand corner of the login screen is a console log for the computer. This xconsole stays open when I log on and needs to be closed manually. Any ideas on how to prevent it from appearing?
2. Shut down
Clicking on Logout provides only one option - "End current session". Clicking on "End current session" returns me to the login screen. There is no option to shut down the computer.
What needs to be done to ensure that the computer shuts down properly without me having to do it manually?
This is corrected by steps 4c and 4d. This problem with SaX2 only seems to occur when you use SaX2 to change your monitor and graphics adapter settings during the first time that you boot your system after installing or upgrading your system from the DVD. I assume that the same problem will occur if you use the bootable CD. I didn't try that approach. Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
According to a response from SuSE Technical Support this is their problem.
I meant to say "SuSE Technical Support claimed that this was not their problem". Technically, that may be true for SuSE Technical Support. It is, however, a problem of the SuSE Engineering and Quality Assurance organisations. Adequate regression testing would have revealed the SaX2 problem. One of the first patches that is always in the SuSE software distribution is to download the nVidia drivers from nVidia. One can only assume that SuSE/Novell and nVidia couldn't reach an agreement regarding royalties and that this was the agreed approach to provide support to people that had purchased nVidia products. Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard
On Sunday 01 May 2005 22:46, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: ... One of the first patches that is always in the SuSE software distribution is to download the nVidia drivers from nVidia. One can only assume that SuSE/Novell and nVidia couldn't reach an agreement regarding royalties and that this was the agreed approach to provide support to people that had purchased nVidia products.
Royalties? For a driver which everyone can download for free? can't believe that royalties are the problem here. It looks more like nvidia wants it this way. Regards, Matt
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 02:45, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 02 May 2005 21:37, Matt T. wrote:
It looks more like nvidia wants it this way.
Then why do they have a "linux exception" clause in their license? Why do they explicitly allow redistribution for linux, bsd and other open source systems?
Wow, I did never read the license ... Very interesting, indeed! Then why does SuSE not put it on their DVDs, and make our life a little easier??? Just because it is closed source? Regards, Matt
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