On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a > blinking cursor in the top-[left] of a blank screen. An emerge of > nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper screen. This > is in spite of not having been able to unload the old nvidia module > because it was "in use".
Today I found that another display problem* had been fixed with an upgrade of gtk+ to version 2.22.1-r1. It had no effect on this problem though. Nor did adding consolekit to the boot run level. It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a VT and restart xdm, everything works as expected. * This was to do with Firefox arrow buttons, as in the thread "[OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?" -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
