On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote: > On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, > > because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a > > VT and restart xdm, everything works as expected. > > Just for clarification, are you saying that you can do that even > without re-emerging nvidia-drivers?
Exactly so - without doing anything other than restarting KDM. This is an ~amd64 box, by the way. > So, when you first switch to the VT, the nvidia module is already > loaded? Yes; without it I wouldn't see a blinking cursor. I think the raster would be absent too if nothing were driving the hardware. The boot sequence is complete. > Is there an X session already running before you restart > kdm? (I don't use any of *dm, so I don't know if they are X apps > that require X to be running before they can write to the screen.) As far as I know, KDM starts X itself. At VT4 (which I use habitually for root logins) I issue the command: $ /etc/init.d/xdm restart && logout which starts the KDM session as normal. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
