It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to +start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled. The +problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to +initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to +wait.
+ +I came across two bugs related to this issue, +#583312 initially filed +against initscripts and passed on to nvidia-glx when it became obvious +that the nvidia drivers were involved, and +#524751 initially filed against +kdm and passed on to src:nvidia-graphics-drivers for unknown reasons.
+ +To me, it seem that no-one is interested in actually solving the +problem nvidia video card owners experience and make sure the Debian +distribution work out of the box for these users. The nvidia driver +maintainers expect kdm to be set up to wait longer, while kdm expect +the nvidia driver maintainers to fix the driver to start faster, and +while they wait for each other I guess the users end up switching to a +distribution that work for them. I have no idea what the solution is, +but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.
+ +I wonder why we end up handling bugs this way.
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