KDM - cannot switch user

dauphin · 2003-12-16 14:58:33

Not sure when this started because I don't normally do it very often, but I have found this morning that I can no longer switch users with kdm.

When I select "Login as different user", the X display closes as normal - but then doesn't come up again; just a blank screen and no alternative but to press the reset button.

It doesn't make any difference if I log in initially as user or root; both work OK, but then I cannot switch to the other.

I can see this being very inconvenient, so if anyone has come across the problem or has any suggestions I'd be grateful.

dauphin · 2003-12-17 09:06:38

Well I found the cause, but not a full solution. I had edited XF86Config the other day to enable DRI. By disabling DRI again everything is back to normal.
I suspect this results from some problem involving my Radeon 7500 card and DRI, as the only other instance I could find in my researches also related to a Radeon card.

_JeffG_ · 2003-12-23 02:07:39

You are not alone. I experience this exact same thing. I am using the ATI drivers provided by ATI. I guess I will disable DRI then.. I do not use it anyway... but gee not being able to log out is a bad thing. I am using kernel 2.4.23 on Arch current. My card is a Radeon 9800. I tried their internal agpgart and the external linux kernel version and this problem exists both places.

This is not limited to KDM for me. I also experience this with xdm as well. I tried all combinations of agpgart/dri settings. With dri disabled, sometimes I get X to restart on its own. Otherwise I have to ctrl-alt-backspace. With dri enabled the monitor goes to the orange state and neither keyboard or mouse or anything is responsive.

Also since dri is not enabled I am not loading the ati module. So, the breakage maybe with X or Linux 2.4.23.

However, not using a display manager and just starting with startx does not have any issues regardless of dri status.

I did have this working before on Arch and Mandrake. Mandrake kernel was their stock 2.4.21 kernel. Last time I used Arch I was running 2.4.22 kernel.

Biggest difference I think is that .23 recognizes my agpgart chipset where as 2.4.22 did not. Going to test .22 now to see if the problem still exists.

Jeff

Guest · 2003-12-23 03:41:06

I plan to do some more research and experimention on this after the holiday - I'll will be interested to know how you get on. I am also running 2.4.23.

_JeffG_ · 2003-12-23 04:21:31

same issue with 2.4.22

Jeff - who is going to see if the old package of XFree86 is still available and install that and see

_JeffG_ · 2003-12-23 05:08:14

Fixed!!!

At least it appears to be working correctly now.

Since I use the ATI binary driver, I used their fglrxconfig tool to build my XFree config file.

I think I hit the wrong option in the port specification.

I think enabled DVI output even though I am not using that. Also, I did not take the default tv output type NTSC-M. I picked NTSC-N instead.

At anyrate, I can now log out of kdm or whatever and have it work as expected.

As far as agpgart goes. I disabled the internal agpgart and used the external (linux kernel version). I compiled it directly in kernel.

Jeff - who is going to switch back to runlevel 5 and reboot for final test but if works then I am happy

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#1 2003-12-16 14:58:33

KDM - cannot switch user

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#4 2003-12-23 03:41:06

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#5 2003-12-23 04:21:31

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