Oh, the humanity!

[Randy Rathbun]

Thanks for the info, Hal. Yep - the screen flickers, that is, you can
watch it drop to text mode then right back to gdm. I watched it some more
when I got home last night and was finally able to see exactly what it
was doing. I logged in over the network and saw that X was chewing up like
95% of my CPU time, so I looked and lo and behold  there are two copies of
X running! So, something somewhere is messed up here. I clobbered the
second one and was able to log in just fine then. 

The keyboard was responding - that is, Num Lock and Caps Lock were working
- and if I did CTRL-ALT-DEL the thing would drop to text mode while it
shut down and I could see all my keypresses that I had done. 

I have not looked to see what is causing this yet - I bought SuSE 7.0 Pro
yesterday and am going to be doing an upgrade tomorrow on the box, so
figured I would see if something magically fixes itself before I start
scratching my head. 

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Duston, Hal wrote:

> Randy,
> 
> So the screen flickers?  This in reaction to your trying to 
> Alt-F1?  I assume then that you can toggle the num-lock key?
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