On Saturday 06 January 2007 11:01, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Samstag 06 Januar 2007 11:14 schrieb Alan Chandler: > > When I end my current session, instead of seeing kdm's login > > screen I just have a completely blue background. Even worse than > > that Ctrl-Alt-F1 does not bring up the console but a blank grey > > screen > > > > The only way to do anything is to ctrl-alt-backspace followed by > > ctrl-alt-del which reboots the machine > > > > I suspect some combination of xorg-xserver and my i810 video not > > working, but before submitting a bug report I just want to rule out > > a kdm problem. > > I also use i810 and see this behaviour only when trying to restart > the X server from within X. Going to a VT first and running > "/etc/init.d/kdm restart" works, though. However, shutting down from > within X works. > > I also use the framebuffer to get a nice VT and I actually blame the > crappy video output situation under linux for this. > Try without framebuffer, without DRI and without XVMC support and > maybe that fixes it.
All of your points exactly match mine now that I have corrected the problem of a missing background file. I suspect that kdm is restarting X or something when a session ends and it can't find the backgound. See debian bug report #405792 -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
