X-Window Weirdness

[Cyber Source]

Sounds like you have alot of misconfigured stuff there and maybe some 
hardware issues as well. ctrl-alt-backspace (at least in Gnome) should 
restart your X server, I believe it's the same for KDE, if that key 
combination shuts your machine off, you have something REALLY wrong. To 
many options to type about that.
  As far as kppp, speaking as a "Gnome-Head", that is one KDE app I 
think does a pretty nice job. When it gives the message that kppp died, 
it will also give a code number. Do a man on kppp and look for that 
number, it should give you a clue as to what is going on and it's almost 
always a authentication problem with the username/password. Seeing that 
winblows can connect ok should rule out a hardware problem. Also, look 
in your /var/log/messages after kppp dies.

S Lawton wrote:

>11/01/04 4:49:22 PM, "S. Lawton " <green_man at bluefrog.biz> wrote:
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>>I attempted to change my monitor, but was unsuccessful, I think.
>>I don't know if it was that, or the fact that I forgot to unplug my USB 
>>trackball device before that login. 
>>Anyhow, when X starts displaying the log in screen, the cursor 
>>moves to the upper right corner of the screen and freezes there. 
>>I tried the LiLo FailSafe boot option, but the same thing happens, 
>>and the console window is pushed to the lower right, so the upper 
>>left corner is in the center of the screen. 
>>I have no idea exactly what happened, or how to fix it, but I have a 
>>Knoppix 3.3 CD that works. Can I somehow use Knoppix to get 
>>into the Mandrake partitions and start Mandrake's X-Windows 
>>using the Knoppix values ? 
>>Knoppix denies me access to Mandrake's partitions, but I can get 
>>a root console. Or could something be done from the "boot" 
>>prompt, before X starts ? 
>>Has anybody seen anything like this ?
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>>AIA
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>UPDATE: 
>I have 3 Linux Live Cds that the monitor and mouse work in. 
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>Knoppix 3.3 [debian based] 
>Morphix 0.4-1 [debian based]
>SlaX 3.0.25-2 [slackware based] 
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>all have very scant documentation, or nil 
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>I have figured out how to access Mandrake's partitions as root from inside Morphix. 
>Is there a file somewhere that I can copy from one of these into Mandrake, or or delete in 
>Mandrake so I can reconfigure it ? 
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>The mouse/monitor glitch is the same for Mandrake's root and normal users, and also 
>happens if I use the "screen=1024x768" argument from the "boot" prompt, login as root, 
>then "startx". Where is the monitor configuration stored, so I can whack it, and be forced to 
>reconfigure it ? 
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>[ASIDE 1] 
>What does CTL+ALT+BACKSPACE do? 
>I think I remeber reading that was supposed to kill Xwindows and put you into text console 
>mode, but this machine dies like I pulled the plug. 
>Is it a configurable key combination ? 
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>[ASIDE 2] 
>Can an ISP tell if you're using Windows or Linux ? 
>If so, can they kill a daemon from thier end ? 
>The reason I ask is that after configuring kppp and hitting "connect", the modem dials and 
>handshakes, but at the point where, in Windows authentication would be completed and it 
>would drop to the systray, instead I get the message the kppp daemon died 
>unexpectedly. There are no details available. 
>This happens every time. Yet, if reboot to Windows and connect, it's fine. 
>What gives ??
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