-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 June 2004 21:53, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 14:32, m wrote: > > 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? > > 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).
I had the same problems on two fresh installs. I have found this problem can be solved by adding psmouse in /etc/modules. The problem seems to be that loading the module takes to long and X exits because it can't find a core pointer. I think that with psmouse in /etc/modules the driver is loaded earlier and X finds it without problem. That's also why it starts correctly when X is started manually: the driver has been loaded by then. Please let me know if my fix works for you as well, then I'll file a bugreport against X on this issue. Cheers, FJP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA101agm/Kwh6ICoQRAn7DAJ92hDNukxoGT8vNn9TAiWVCGc6GtACbBGJ4 F/XT5DI9LnKQLBR31qy0DvQ= =NHbe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
