Debian sarge strange login behavior 3150

That's an xdm.

Become sure. Change the default setting in your inittab.

Why? It's trivial!

Whatever you say should come up comes up. Man startx (or read it!). Check your .xinitrc to see what you say should start (or write it).

?? You have as many as you start.

Then kill it with the mouse - your login manager should have a restart button. If not, add one!

But delaying your xdm startup point in the boot sequence should be fine, no? Or add a kill once to the script itself!

Are you SURE your keybard is a) ps-2 b) internal

?? If it is a second external ps-2 keyboard, use the first (fixed) keyboard to send ctl-alt-bkspc, and thus restart your xdm.

Reinstall the packages to see the same messages - I daresay they were sent only to the console the admin ran their installation on...

It made a difference - you just didn't see it. But what's your beef with tpctl? I installed it, given your recmmendation, and it's a harmless set of kernel modules and tools for changing the display brightness on a thinkpad.

Peter