On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:38:26PM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > ... > > I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon > > screen .. did he try the alternatives to gdm (xdm, kdm, wdm, ..) ?? > > > > Otherwise what's wrong with .. > > > > $ startx $(which window-manager) -- 0: > > > > ... ? > > > > Is this a corporate setup where he needs to provide a GUI login screen > > to a crowd of users? > > > > Or is K.W. actually claiming that he must have gdm in order to be able > > to switch to a console and that all else fails? > > > > This latter is the situation. Any WM tried, without using gdm, fails to > allow a switch out to another terminal. > > I can run fluxbox w/o gdm and no switching allowed. FLuxbox with gdm? > Switching OK. > > Running another X session at the same time (e.g. my wife) w/o gdm has > the problem, while my gdm-controlled session doesn't. > > > Just my two cents .. please ignore if I missed something. > > No problem.
Yes, .. and sorry I didn't reply to you directly .. I only saw your post after I had replied to F.K. .. your message was on the following screen and by the the time I page down it was too late. You're going to think I am persistent .. and probably talking through my *ss as well .. but did you try the "vesa" driver? It's as simple as duplicating the stanza that specifies the nv/nvidia driver and replacing your full-featured nvidia driver(s) by the vesa generic .. I think it's called "vesa" .. in Xorg's conf file .. and naturally, restarting X. Mind you, I know _nothing_ of X's internals and this is very likely not going to work .. The only reason I suggested this is that I once had a box with a low-end embedded SiS video chip that was behaving likewise and switching from the alpha-beta sis driver to the generic "vesa" let me work around the problem. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
