Keven Ring wrote a sequel: > Keven Ring wrote: > > > Jeff Vian wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Shoshana Rosenthal wrote: > >>> and configured XF86Config. The X session seems to work fine, > >>> with the exception that when I logout of the session, I don't > >>> return to the login window. I have to kill startx from a remote > >>> session. > >> To kill it in that setup use ctl-alt-bksp and it will return you to > >> the command line. > >> If you are in runlevel 5 (graphics) I don't have a clue. :-( > > I have a laptop + dock station at work with Fedora Core 1 installed, > > with all of it's packages up to date. The laptop displays with a > > resolution of 1400x1050, while my external flat panel only can do > > 1280x1024. If I log out of my laptop, the screen becomes completely > > unusable - that is, a black screen. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does *not* > > All three laptops have ATI graphics cards, while the desktop at home > > has a Matrox MGA card. I have an HP vectra at work with matrox on MB, works fine. Exact same vectra at home, but with added ATI @work, fails on logout in mode 5. I kill (signal TERM, the default) the two copies of gdm-binary instead of kill -9 X. It seems to be a cleaner kill. (Did I just say that?) > > If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd say that there might be > > something wrong when X tries to log out and there are different > > display resolutions, but that's just a wild stab. I wonder if it's a problem in the ATI driver? Anyone have this problem without an ATI card? > When I set the laptop to have 2x1280x1024 displays, login/logout works > fine. When I reset the display to 1x1400x1050, 1x1280x1024, the X > Server fails to terminate. Is this true for repeated login/logout or just the first one or two times? ISTR experimenting along the same lines. -- Oisin Curtin Oisin.Curtin (@) PhoenixFltOps (.) com "Life is a non-renewable resource, use it well." -- Curly++, a survivor. In my opinion, my opinions are mine and may differ from those of my wife or my employer. Oddly, my wife and my employer both agree emphatically.
