On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 14:21 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > at boot, when xdm is started, x freezes directly after the login screen > is displayed. sometimes it's possible to type in the login name, but at > the latest at typing the password, the complete screen freezes. > > i'm still able to kill x with magic sysrq key combination: > <alt>+<sysrq>+<k> > > <strg>+<alt>+<backspace> and changing the console screen don't work any > longer. > > as already said, this happens _only_ at the first start of xdm, in the > boot process. if i stop and afterwards start xdm, it _never_ freezes. FWIW, I used to see something similar with gdm and kdm a while back, and it was a VT allocation race between the X server and the gettys. IIRC the X server would attach to VT 2 but display on VT 7, so it would never get the input. AFAIR the mouse cursor worked though, is that the case for you? -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
