On Wed, 25 Dec 2013, Dan Youngquist wrote:

> On 12/24/2013 09:48 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
>> the trouble is that booting into the gui causes touchpad and mouse to freeze
>> at the login screen, requiring a reboot.
>
> If I understand correctly, the display manager is running things at that
> point.  So the first thing I'd try is a different display manager, like
> lightdm or gdm instead of kdm-trinity.
>
>

I say 'fixed' and not 'solved' since I have no idea what happened!

I was booting into recovery mode and trying to get wifi to work, 
something to do with the atheros drivers. google yielded a tip about 
changing something in the udev-ilish rules as there was this weird 
atl1.c driver that kept showing up in dmesg as failing.

all I know is that I got wifi to work and decided to do a normal boot, 
that is, cold boot and proceed automatically to X.

no problem. went from start to gui without a hiccup and with normal 
use of touchpad and keyboard.

wicd isn't behaving so that's the next front.

if I wanted to set the default window-manager from the commandline, 
which script do I alter?

F.


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Felmon Davis

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