On 06:51 Tue 19 Oct , Guillermo Leira wrote: > > After the last Pacman -Syu, I can't login with gdm. As soon as I clikc on my > > username, the system seems to freeze... Although not completely: I can ping > > from other computer, but I can't ssh. > > > > Before I click on the username, the "switch off" icon at the right down corner > > works. Once I click on the username, nothing else works, and I neither can > > ctrl-alt-F1 to the console... > > > > Any suggestions/questions? > > I have removed GDM and installed SLIM. Now I can login, but the screen shows nothing... And if I try to CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, the system locks again. It is not a GDM problem. > > If I run startx from the command line, X starts. > > Any advice? > > Best regards, > > Guillermo > The behaviour that switching to the console freezes the output happens normaly, when kernel mode settings aren't activated / functioning / vesa instead of the nouveau-driver (radeon, intel, whatever) is used. Have a look ... http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KMS http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau Kind regards, Karl
