Screen flickers at login screen and gives shell login prompt

[ranger]

I have done this twice ...fresh install of Mandrake 9.1 and tested video settings during install as follows:

 

1) chose default (auto-detected) monitor/graphics card and boot to "x-free" login screen.

2) chose lesser (than auto-detected) screen resolution and tested ok.

 

During boot, I can almost see the login manager screen while the screen flickers, but then kicks me into a shell login screen instead.  I can login and manuver the computer using the terminal commands.

 

What's wrong, and how do I fix it?  Is there a more "generic" setting for the video I can use instead of what's auto-detected?

 

This really looks like bug 3081: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3081

 

Easy fix:

 

# rm -f /etc/X11/XFConfig*

# XFdrake --auto --noexpert

(Choose XFree86-4.3, but don't test the settings)

# service dm restart

 

If you want to run XFree86-3.3.6 (maybe it supports hardware acceleration on your card), get the libqt3 RPMs from Tex's site.

[Guest anthroadam]

Ok,

Sorry. It's just that the subject of this thread, and other people's problems describe my problem exactly. That other thread you referred to is completely different.

 

I did some more searching on this problem and found that it occurs with a few different cards. Many people with the S3 card are able to get GNOME and ICEWM to work even though KDE will not.

 

I too am able to use GNOME, ICEWM, and Enlightenment by directing X to use them instead of kdm or mdkdm.

 

$ startx icewm

 

or

 

$ startx /usr/bin/startgnome

 

or

 

$ startx /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment

 

If one of these works and you don't mind using them you can then change your XF