I'm not so sure it is a KDE problem. I have this same problem, but I also have it with sawfish/Gnome (it is worse - I can't get to a terminal), and even with only twm and the basic X system running. Trying to log in just puts you back to the login screen.
I also have an nVidia card (GeForce2 MX - but that may be a coincidence). Anyone else have this problem? By the way, I managed to get by my xserver-xfree86 hanging-on-install problem. I had debconf set too high. Putting it on "low" worked fine. Cheers, JP Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 12:39:45 +1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Debian Users List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: x starts in failsafe mode, but not regular mode On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:42:10PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I've set up xfree86-4 on my debian woody box using the nvidia binary drivers > and KDE. Now, when I run the kdm, I get to the KDE login screen, but when I > log in in default mode, the screen blanks for a minute, then a simple blue > background displays with a black bar at the top, and then I am returned ot > the login screen. > > If I log in in failsafe mode, I get in far enough to see konsole and I'm > assuming that's all failsafe mode is designed to provide. > > I'm not familiar enough with linux to know if this is a KDE problem, xfree86 > problem or nvidia driver problem -- can anyone offer some suggestions on what > might be causing this problem? > > Thanks. At a guess I'd say it's a KDE problems, if it was an X problem you wouldn't get the kdm login screen, Failsafe mode is nothing like safe mode in windows, what it does is start a X session and run a xterm, it still loads all the same drivers so it's not a nVidia problem, I'd look at your KDE install Cheers Joel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
