login screen doesn't appear automatically

I have openSUSE 10.3 installed and it works fine.
But when I start the computer the 'normal' login screen doesn't appear,
instead I have to login in the terminal mode and then start xdm before I
get my graphical display.
Any idea how I can change this so the login screen appears
automatically when booting?
Thank you very much!


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matze,

Yast, System, Runlevel Editor, Expert Mode: Set the runlevel to 5.
Back to "System", "/etc/sysconfig Editor", Desktop, DISPLAY_MANAGER should be set to kdm.

HTH
Uwe


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Unfortunately, these are already my settings :-(. Do you have another
idea?


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Matze,

WINDOW_MANAGER ist set to "kde"?

Uwe

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Yes, it is already.


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matzematze wrote:
> Yes, it is already.
>
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One thing you might try.
I had the same complaint when I first started to use 10.3 and went through all the SAX and
Yast things, which were all set where they needed to be. The login screen just took me
back to the login screen. I still seemed to need to log in at a CLI and then startx, but
startx claimed that I had to delete its running-flag file first.

One day I was called away from the machine just after initiating a reboot. It was nearly
10 minutes before I got back. I had the green splash screen showing; I selected KDE
session and entered user id and password; wonder of wonders, it all worked just fine.

Apparent lesson learned: Give it time to stabilize and get all the background stuff going
before trying login. Why? Dunno, but it worked for me. It may very well not be your
problem, but give it a shot, just in case.

:-( Doesn't help as well... Now, I even have problems to start xdm,
though I didn't change any of the settings - isn't that usually more a
Windows problem :-)?


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matzematze wrote:
> ...- isn't that usually more a
> Windows problem :-)?
Now, that I wouldn't know; I've never used it.

Mainframe => OS/2 => Linux