El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:07, Earle Jason escribió: > Hello all! > > I'm having trouble with XFree86 4.2.0. My box is a IBM 300PL with an embedded S3 >Trio > 3D graphics card. I blew it away and installed Mandrake 8.2 -- no problems. I then > upgraded to XFree86 4.2.0 (it was using 3.3.6 or something - why such an old version >on > a brand new release?) > > Anyways, after tweaking XF86Config-4, my hardware seems to be recognized OK... I get > a nice grey X-windowey screen with a window in the middle that says "welcome to <my > computer name here>" and prompts for a login and password, as well as which window > manager I'd like to use. > > Here's where it deviates from normal: No matter what window manager I choose, > whenver I log in, the machine thinks for about 5 seconds, then gives me a new window > at the top titled "Session Menu" and with a line that says >"chooseSessionListWidget". > There are 5 buttons listed: "Load Session", "Delete Session", "Break Lock", > "default/Fail Safe", and "Cancel", and all but the last 2 options are greyed out. >No > matter which I press (or even if I click on "chooseSessionListWidget"), I get dumped > back to the login prompt. No KDE for me. :( > > One other weird thing: There's an xterm session at the bottom right of the screen >that > says "Console Log for <my computer domain here>, but I can't interact with it at >all. > (except to scroll up and down, but that's useless as there's only 1 line...) > > That TOTALLY doesn't jive with my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file, which should be >showing > like 3 xterms and one xclock. (I don't have any .xinitrc files, so that should be >used, > right?) > > Also, I did look into the archives - someone had the same problem in November of >2000, > but I didn't find the response to be very pertinent to the problem. Can anyone out >there > shed some light on this? > > Thanks for whatever help you can offer... > > -Jason > > > Jason Earle > Booz | Allen | Hamilton >
can you go into kde by booting to runlevel 3 and doing a startx? probably a kdm misconfiguration issue. if you manage to get in a GUI, use mandrake contro center and reconfigure your login prompts. HTH Damian
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