Kill off gdm by hitting ctrl + alt + backspace killing it about 5 times until the service suspends, then login, rm -r .gnome* .gconf* in your home directory to clear out gnome's settings. This is a driver issue, I believe with Intel cards and the included driver.
James On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Jay Mahadeokar wrote: > Hello trisk. > > As you suggested I did gnome-appearance-properties in the xterm > using failsafe session in GDM. > > I got the desktop settings window where I could adjust visual > effects. I reset the settings as default. But when I exit this > session and log on to the GDM desktop, it again opens with the > advanced visual effects and hangs immediately! > > Any ways thanks a lot for the suggestion. Do you have any other > guess? I am nearly out of patience now.. thinking of formating and > reinstalling. > > Please can any one report this problem to any core team member? > There must be a way out... > > Thanks. > Jay Mahadeokar. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080606/72200e05/attachment.html>
