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raffam

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Registered: 2018-12-29

Posts: 5

xdm black screen

Hi, I have Kubuntu 18.10 in which I installed XFCE.

I wanted to use xdm as my display manager. So i installed it and I activated it using
`sudo dpkg-reconfigure xdm" and selecting xdm as my display manager.

But every time I reboot I am redirected to a black screen. I am able to do CTRL+ALT+F1, login as root in the terminal and restore LightDM, then reboot and gain access to a login screen.

What could be the problem? What debug information I need to provide? drivers

I have the NVIDIA proprietary driver

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.10
Release:    18.10
Codename:    cosmic

uname -a
Linux raffa-kubuntu 4.18.0-13-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 09:04:24 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Last edited by raffam (2018-12-29 21:31:35)

ozjd

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From: Hawkesbury NSW Australia

Registered: 2012-02-05

Posts: 560

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Re: xdm black screen

This isn't really an Xfce question. You are more likely to get a useful response from your distro.

raffam

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Registered: 2018-12-29

Posts: 5

Re: xdm black screen

I am sorry, I thought xdm was a display manager developed inside the xfce4 project. Apparently it is a X.Org display manager

Last edited by raffam (2018-12-29 23:23:34)