Mdk 8.2 : Mouse freezes after logout

[sharth]

change login managers?

that's about all i can think of. try xdm or kdm or gdm or whatever you are not using.

[dysharmonic]

Hi

My default login manager is kdm and it doesnt work w/ Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

I tried gdm from the CLI and Ctrl+Alt+Bspace seemed to work. I guess I should be thankful for gdm.

So now how do I change the login manager so that runlevel 5 boots right to gdm?

Thanx.

[sharth]

should be an option for default display manager somewhere. I dunno in mandrake...

Well, looking around, I came up with this, that may work.

in /etc/sysconfig/desktop

there are 2 possible lines.

DESKTOP=KDE (or gnome)
DISPLAYMANAGER=GDM

That should do it... should. I haven't tested though. make sure you install gdm as well.

[timL]

Yes, that does work in Mandrake.

the desktop file just contains one line on my system:

DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm

It was kde before I changed it. (mouse freezes on both dm's)

[sharth]

Then I don't know Hopefully someone else will be able to help you out.

[mdwatts]

Have either of you checked your X logfile for any errors

grep EE /var/log/XFree86.0.log

and the system logfile for any resource conficts etc.

less /var/log/messages

PgUp - PgDn
'q' to quit less

Check your bios settings for the com ports, power management, PS/2 etc.

[dysharmonic]

Nice

I took a look at my /etc/sysconfig/desktop and there was no DISPLAYMANAGER=sumthing line.

I put one there and now my mouse is working a whole lot better after logging out. Only that on very few occasions, (i.e after 6-7 times logging in and out) it sumhow freezes. Nevertheless it's much better than before.

Here's the whole thing :

DESKTOP=KDE
DISPLAYMANAGER=GDM

Grepping the XFree86.0.log file soon.

Thanx.

[timL]

I finally got round to installing the nVidia drivers for my GeForce4 last night.

The problem has now stopped.

Another one down, only a couple more hundred to go!

[sharth]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Have either of you checked your X logfile for any errors

grep EE /var/log/XFree86.0.log

and the system logfile for any resource conficts etc.

less /var/log/messages

PgUp - PgDn
'q' to quit less

Check your bios settings for the com ports, power management, PS/2 etc.

log files? who looks at those! I'm stuck in wnidows thinking where we don't have log files (atleast not many!)

[dysharmonic]

Hi

Good news my mouse doesnt seem to freeze anymore, no matter how many times I log in and out!

Those log files dont turn up w/ anything to do w/ gdm or mouse. So I take it all is fine as far as the rodent is concerned

Thanx.