startx doen't die on logout
Oisin Curtin
Oisin.Curtin at PhoenixFltOps.com
Fri Mar 26 19:33:26 UTC 2004
Keven Ring wrote a sequel:
> Keven Ring wrote:
>
> > Jeff Vian wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Shoshana Rosenthal wrote:
> >>> and configured XF86Config. The X session seems to work fine,
> >>> with the exception that when I logout of the session, I don't
> >>> return to the login window. I have to kill startx from a remote
> >>> session.
> >> To kill it in that setup use ctl-alt-bksp and it will return you to
> >> the command line.
> >> If you are in runlevel 5 (graphics) I don't have a clue. :-(
> > I have a laptop + dock station at work with Fedora Core 1 installed,
> > with all of it's packages up to date. The laptop displays with a
> > resolution of 1400x1050, while my external flat panel only can do
> > 1280x1024. If I log out of my laptop, the screen becomes completely
> > unusable - that is, a black screen. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does *not*
> > All three laptops have ATI graphics cards, while the desktop at home
> > has a Matrox MGA card.
I have an HP vectra at work with matrox on MB, works fine.
Exact same vectra at home, but with added ATI @work, fails on logout
in mode 5.
I kill (signal TERM, the default) the two copies of gdm-binary instead
of kill -9 X. It seems to be a cleaner kill. (Did I just say that?)
> > If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd say that there might be
> > something wrong when X tries to log out and there are different
> > display resolutions, but that's just a wild stab.
I wonder if it's a problem in the ATI driver? Anyone have this problem
without an ATI card?
> When I set the laptop to have 2x1280x1024 displays, login/logout works
> fine. When I reset the display to 1x1400x1050, 1x1280x1024, the X
> Server fails to terminate.
Is this true for repeated login/logout or just the first one or two
times? ISTR experimenting along the same lines.
--
Oisin Curtin Oisin.Curtin (@) PhoenixFltOps (.) com
"Life is a non-renewable resource, use it well." -- Curly++, a survivor.
In my opinion, my opinions are mine and may differ from those of my wife
or my employer. Oddly, my wife and my employer both agree emphatically.
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list