Why!! does End Session default to Runlevel 3

[Rex Dieter]

Jim wrote:

> What video hw/driver is in use?  the "nv" driver for a Gforce 6600 LE .

That might be the culprit, but let's explore others first.
 
> I'm using KDE only on these boxes, where would it tell me what desktop
> manager is in use.

It depends on how you installed fedora, if you used KDE Live, you get kdm,
otherwise, you generally get gdm.

I'd recommend giving kdm a whirl, create/edit
/etc/sysconfig/desktop
to contain:
DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

-- Rex