I've been having the same problem intermittantly on a fresh sarge install. The XFree86.log then reports some problem with configuring the mouse, although it doesn't always happen, when it does it drops back out the the boot prompt and I have to kill kdm and restart it to get in normaly (without startx).
Chris On Monday 21 June 2004 14:32, m wrote: > Hello, i did apt-get install kde in Debian/sid, it installed ok with no > errors. > > On startup, it runs kdm, but then screen blanks and returns back to the > login prompt. > > After that i login as normal user and try to run from command line, it says > that: Only root wants to run kdm. If i login as root and type kdm, it runs > ok, showing the list of user and i can normally login. > > If i try running startx from command line, it runs kdm from any user ok. > > Anybody has any suggestions why it doesn't want to run kdm but runs startx? > > ----------------------------------------- > ITV - Sinu lemmiksaated internetis! > http://www.itv.ee -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 D-30173 Hannover
