Cant switch users in Knoppix- Screen goes to standby

theoldman · 10-01-2003, 12:23 AM

I can't seem to figure this out- I installed knoppix on my hard drive, but I tried to switch users, and my monitor went to standby and did not come back. A restart solved the problem, I could log into whichever user I wanted to, but obviously, this is highly annoying and far from ideal, so I was wondering if anyone else has had/solved this problem, and even if anyone has HEARD of this before. I am running an ATI raden 9000 on an AMD t-bird 800 if it makes a difference. Knoppix 3.2. Also if anyone has any reviews about whether Knoppix 3.3 is worth the upgrade, plz let me know...

Thanks.

bigjohn · 10-01-2003, 11:16 AM

I have just installed knoppix 3.3 onto my hard drive (over the top of the debian sarge that I had).

I don't know if I did the install any different from you, but I haven't had any snags like that - I'm just struggling to get it to boot from the hard drive (triple boot of XP, Mandrake 9.1 and the knoppix).

Can you swich to root in a terminal? or is the problem that you can't switch graphically?

Only that under mandrake, I remembered that they had root as a hidden user by default and you had to go into the kde login manager and unselect the hiden user thing.

regards

John

theoldman · 10-01-2003, 02:58 PM

John,

I can switch to root in console, and I can even boot to root from the login screen if i restart the computer....but I cant seem to log out and get back to the login screen- the screen goes blank and my monitor goes to standby. Naturally, this is perplexing....I have knoppix 3.2 installed on my laptop also and I dont have this problem. I am dual booting winxp on both my laptop and my desktop. Let me know if you got any other ideas...im stumped. BTW, is there a big difference between 3.3 and 3.2? I guess what Im asking is whether or not you think it is worth the trouble of upgrading? Thanks.

Ryan

bigjohn · 10-04-2003, 11:19 AM

Hell, if you've got the bandwidth and time, I'd do the upgrade.

Though if you find that you have to reboot the system to be able to get a root login facility, then is it not a kde problem? though it almost sounds like it could be a power management thing (though I suspect not).

You should, afterall, be able to "log out Ryan" and get the "log in as a different user" option ??

And I still think that despite having snags myself - in setting up my system to boot from the hard drive, that Knoppix hdd install is as close to getting a debian based system to install in a "mandrake like" way, as you're going to get.

regards

John