Hello: I have no idea what I did, but I sure could use a hint. I do not get the login screen from KDM when I boot on the Linux side of my laptop. Instead I get a grey background with the SUSE logo that always says "simply change", as well as a smaller login window that says "Welcome at Linux". I also get what looks like a small x console window on the bottom left hand side of the screen. Any idea about what I can do to restore the login screen with KDM? Do I need to reinstall something Before this happens, I was using Yast to change the screen resolution, following a reply I got on a previous message. I'd love to get a hint with this. thanks. Laura

What happens if you do the following: 1) Change to text mode by running "init 3" as root. 2) Again as root try running "kdm". Let's get your X server resolution correct first, one problem at a time! Whilst playing with your X configuration you may find it useful to always boot to run level 3 (text mode) until you have fixed the problem. To to this edit /etc/inittab and change the line: id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: You can now test your X setup with the startx command and quit back to text with Ctrl&Alt&Backspace. Are you familiar with a text based text editor? It can often be useful when trying to fix problems if you don't have to rely on X or a graphical interface. Although one of the main *nix editors vi or emacs would be good to get your head around they are pretty complicated when compared to something like notepad! I would suggest either pico or mcedit, both of which are similar to DOS edit.

Hello: After logging as root and changing to text mode, running kdm prompted me to the normal KDM login screen. I was thrilled. I rebooted my laptop, and I got the grey background with the "Welcome at Linux" login window. I did change /etc/inittab as you suggested. Sure, I can use pico or vi to edit files, I am not a DOS person at all. What shall I do now. I think that I must have twicked something when I was running YAST2 to change the screen resolution because this started to happen right after I was doing that. thanks. Laura.

At least we know that kdm is installed and working. It sounds like your PC is trying to use another display manager like xdm (FYI the gnome one is called gdm). I think if suse has any display problems, for some reason it automatically changes your display manager to xdm. Edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and change DISPLAYMANAGER=”xdm” to DISPLAYMANAGER=”kdm”. There are a couple of other things you can try but that should do the trick.