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