I hope the answer is not too late to help you :) On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:26:28PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote: > If I can kill kdm completely then I can try a 'startx' and capture the error > output. Does anyone remember the command line to do that? It's something > like: > > % startx %1> %2 blah blah blah > > I'd love to hear ideas. Get into a tty, login as root and /etc/init.d/kdm stop Then you can start X with startx. But as kdm is started fine, I suspect it is not a problem with the X config, but more likely with your user's KDE configs. Login on a tty as that user and rename .kde to .kde.save and try to login from kdm. Cheers, florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020208/12b3f29d/attachment.pgp