On 12/09/2004 Michel Dänzer wrote: > 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. > > 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? exactly, the mouse cursor still works, only keyboard seems to be broken. after hitting <alt>+<sysrq>+<k>, the screen get's messed up, then i change to tty1, this vc gets messed up completely, i type '/etc/init.d/xdm stop', and the messed up screen becomes somehow reset. bye jonas _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86