Re: Now working... gdm??? Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 01:09 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:38:26PM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 18:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
...
I've pretty much lost track but if the OP absolutely needs a GUI logon
screen .. did he try the alternatives to gdm (xdm, kdm, wdm, ..) ??

Otherwise what's wrong with ..

$ startx $(which window-manager) -- 0:

... ?

Is this a corporate setup where he needs to provide a GUI login screen
to a crowd of users?

Or is K.W. actually claiming that he must have gdm in order to be able
to switch to a console and that all else fails?


This latter is the situation. Any WM tried, without using gdm, fails to
allow a switch out to another terminal.

I can run fluxbox w/o gdm and no switching allowed. FLuxbox with gdm?
Switching OK.

Running another X session at the same time (e.g. my wife) w/o gdm has
the problem, while my gdm-controlled session doesn't.

Just my two cents .. please ignore if I missed something.

No problem.

Yes,

.. and sorry I didn't reply to you directly .. I only saw your post
after I had replied to F.K. .. your message was on the following screen
and by the the time I page down it was too late.

You're going to think I am persistent .. and probably talking through my
*ss as well .. but did you try the "vesa" driver? It's as simple as
duplicating the stanza that specifies the nv/nvidia driver and replacing
your full-featured nvidia driver(s) by the vesa generic .. I think it's
called "vesa" .. in Xorg's conf file .. and naturally, restarting X.


Gave it a try just now, but still no go. I reconfigured console-tools
and console-data as well, but no help there either.

:(


Mind you, I know _nothing_ of X's internals and this is very likely not
going to work .. The only reason I suggested this is that I once had a
box with a low-end embedded SiS video chip that was behaving likewise
and switching from the alpha-beta sis driver to the generic "vesa" let
me work around the problem.


I appreciate the thought and suggestions. I'm feeling quite stretched
on this, with seemingly less and less that I can try.

Is the kbd package a replacement for console-tools? I'm looking for
replacements now...

Cheers,


Kenward


Thanks,
cga


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