On Tuesday 04 November 2003 06:44 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > >On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:04 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > >>What is your hardware? If you have a nvidia geforce4 have you > >>installed the drivers? > >> > >>Tony. > > > > I don't believe that's the problem. I have a GeF4 and it works > >out of the box with the Xfree86 'nv' driver. No need to install any > >drivers. OTOH, there's no tellin what kind of bugs installin the > >proprietary nVidia driver can cause. > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: John Richard Smith > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November > >>04, 2003 8:41 AM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually? > >> > >>M.A.Bell wrote: > >>>mike wrote: > >>>>M.A.Bell wrote: > >>>>>Greetings. > >>>>>I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that > >>>>>installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. > >>>>>After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. > >>>>>When I enter "startkde", it does. > >>>>>How can I get my system to do this automagically? > >>>
> > I tried just about everything I found different in your kdmrc, but > nothing fixed the problem. > Now I get the login dialog and, regardless of which user and/or desktop > I choose, after about 10 secs the dialog box sort of wiggles, and the > password field is cleared. I.E. I can't login. The dialog box wiggle means you gave it the wrong password, it is shaking its head no. You may have to change your password.HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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