[ltp] New To List - blank console

[Dale H. Cook]

At 06:13 PM 8/9/2003 -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:

>You mention KDE - do you mean you log in to other window managers, and
>it doesn't give you a blank screen when you log out?

Bret -

I only have KDE installed right now. Until I get a larger HD in the 
Thinkpad everything is a tight squeeze - 6 gig is really too small for dual 
booting. I should try Gnome, though, just to see how it acts. I'll have to 
pull KDE off, though, to make room for Gnome.

>When you start the machine, up until you see the graphical login - do
>you see text messages scrolling up reporting the boot process?

Yes, I do, and then KDE seems to run fine - it's just when I exit KDE that 
I have a problem. The boot process and KDE launch do fine whether I boot at 
runlevel 5 or boot at runlevel 3 and run startx. I though the machine was 
locking up after exiting KDE, but it is the video card failing to switch 
modes and leaving me with a blank console. I've found that after logging 
out of KDE I can wait for the HD to stop, and can then telinit 0 or 6, and 
the machine halts or reboots fine. It could easily be that I don't have the 
video configured quite right. Based on what I've seen on the web I set it 
up for Silicon Motion LynxEM+, generic 1024x768 LCD, 4 meg RAM, no 
clockchip setting, 16 bit 1024x768 mode.

Wait a minute - I missed this because the lines flash by on the console so 
quickly. When I'm at runlevel 3 and then telinit 5, wine fails. Anyone have 
any ideas for this new user?


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