[ltp] New To List - blank console

[j_f_clark]

At 07:38 PM 8/9/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>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?

Dan:
You might want to look into one of the other window managers -- TWM (Tab or 
Tom's Window Manager) should have been included in your distro.  IceWM and 
FVWM are a couple of others.  My RH9 documentation says that TWM is the 
fallback.  It provides essential features using less than 1 Mbyte for its 
footprint.

Joe Clark