dnr01 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Does anyone know what cause the logon screen to disapeer when you do a ctrl-alt-bksp or an End Current Session command. [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 An x-server that refuses to restart? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking777 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 I had soething like this recently and I found if I tapped the space bar (or any other key for that matter) that a console login screen appeared, but it didn't appear on its own. It wasn't this distro, and it has since gone away, but you might like to try it just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 You can try pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 to get a console window, then login as root, and do: service dm restart and see if it switches to the graphical login. If not, press ALT-F7 and that would switch it, but normally when I restart this service, it automatically goes to this console window for the GUI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 What display card do you have? and what's the output of this run in terminal: cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep "Driver" Check this out: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=86985 especially RJ549's posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnr01 Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 You can try pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 to get a console window, then login as root, and do: service dm restart and see if it switches to the graphical login. If not, press ALT-F7 and that would switch it, but normally when I restart this service, it automatically goes to this console window for the GUI. Thanks for all the help guys. I was hoping thiat I could get hitting the space bar to work but it didn't for me. However the above worked and as long as I don't reboot, it continues to work for me. Thanks again for everyones help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnr01 Posted September 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 (edited) What display card do you have? and what's the output of this run in terminal:cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep "Driver" Check this out: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=86985 especially RJ549's posts. This is what I get when I type in the cat command [root@localhost]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep "Driver" Driver "kbd" Driver "mouse" Driver "fglrx" I must say I don't know exactly what that means. My display card is an ATI. Edited September 11, 2008 by dnr01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 (edited) Ctrl + Alt + Backspace does not work with the propriatary ATI driver in KDE. I have not used Gnome, but I believe I read that it does work in Gnome. IIRC, it also works fine with the XORG drivers. Here is another thread on the issue: Logout error Edited September 11, 2008 by David Batson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleXxiO Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 i have this issue too with my ati hd3450...after ctrl+alt+bksp system freezes and the only way to restart it is the soft press of switch-on button, then it closes in a normal way...someone solved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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