>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed openSuse 11.1 on my IBM T61 laptop and everything is
> working fine except the Logout feature doesn’t work.
>
> When I click on “Logout” it displays only blank screen and then I’m
> left with no other choice then reboot the system.
>
> I’m sure its not frozen because when I do <Ctrl><Alt><Del> twice it
> starts the shutdown process.
When it appears frozen can you access a vt ( Ctrl+Alt+F1 ) if so login as root enter pass and see if:
I see the exact same problem as the thread starter.
When logging out the X server attempts to restart but instead I see a
blank screen with a stuck cursor at the top left. Although the system is
responsive, nothing is displayed on the screen, so everything happens
“blind”. Eg. switching to vt1 and logging in, I can issue a find command
and see the hard drive going nuts, but I see nothing on the screen: it
stays blank with the stuck cursor.
The only key that restores screen behaviour is CTRL+ALT+DEL, causing a
graceful shutdown/restart… in this case the openSUSE shutdown splash
appears. Hitting ESC during shutdown though displays a vt1 with the
opensuse logo at the top left and pixel garbage where the shutdown audit
should appear.
I only see this issue when using the proprietary nvidia driver. When I
use the X.Org “nv” driver, there is no weirdness when logging out. Thing
is, I can’t get higher than 16-bit colour from the nv driver on the
T61’s Quadro NVS 140 graphics (any ideas?)
I can see the same issue if I switch from my live KDE session to vt1
(ctrl+alt+f1), then login as root, run init 3 (shutting down X) and then
init 5 to start X again. So the issue is not with logging out, but
instead the restart of X with the nvidia driver, after it’s successfully
run once. I’m fairly sure it’s an nvidia driver issue; I’ve tried all
drivers from 177.82 up to 180.18. I’d love to try 173.xx that I used
with openSuse 11.0, but unfortunately this won’t compile in 11.1 with
the 2.6.27 kernel.
I would also be interested to see if openSuse 11.0 has this issue with
the newer nvidia drivers (177.82+).
Glad I’m not alone. This issue has been driving me nuts. I’ve posted
‘some details about this on my blog’
(http://my.opera.com/sebt/blog/2008/12/23/opensuse-11-1-on-t61) and
invite further comments there until this issue is resolved. I’ve also
filed a bug reports with novell and nvidia about this, see my blog for
the links.
