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I installed a program yesterday on my SuSE 9.3 Pro system, and when I restarted my computer later last night instead of just booting up Linux (I only have 1 user) a splash login screen came up. Not the regular splash screen though, but one that kind of looks like concrete. When I typed my login last night, it would come up with an XConsole window in that same splash screen. I formatted my comp [twice] but I sitll get the same thing once I try to restart. At least now the OS starts up. But when I goto the Log Out menu I only get the option to end session.
Can anyone tell me what to do? Do I have to update my Bios? Any suggestions? Should I post a log of my startup, if so how do I that?
This seems to be a bug in SuSE 9.3. Some people seem to think it has to do with NVIDIA... it doesn't. I had the problem on a computer with an ATI card (without updating any display drivers).
What you see is the xdm login screen (it looks nasty, I know... ) and you want to change it back to kdm (that is what you saw first).
Solution:
- login
- start yast
- go to System -> edit /etc/sysconfig-files
- do a Search and search for xdm
- find DISPLAYMANAGER xdm and open it
- change it to kdm
- close everything and reboot
- the problem should be fixed now
hey i had the same problem and i use gnome and i done the search for xdm and i don't have it i have gdm in display manager ? do i change it to what you said or something else ? sorry im kinds new to linux lol
Unbeknowst to you, this also helped me... Anyway, I was horrified by that grey screen and annoying how that xconsole kept reporting to me that something was incorrect or something... Well, all is well now, thanks...
hey pete, thnx for ur help and all. but i have another puzzling problem. The only time this happens to me is when i install my nvidia driver. after that, i made the same changes to my displaymanager and windowmanager...now i don't get X to come up period. Also, here is a link to another major problem i have when i install my nvidia driver
Yes that works, but not for very long, because something changes the default back to xdm. I'm thinking of uninstalling the xdm to get rid of the ugly thing.
Thank you very much Pete. You helped me too. I use used to use gdm but once I was trying to hook my toshiba satellite laptop to TV and it messed up my display configuration. So I had to reprobe my graphics card which is intel GM. But after that I had to see that annoying xdm.
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HELP: My Login Screen Is Messed Up
) and you want to change it back to kdm (that is what you saw first).
