8.04, Nvidia proprietary, failed logout

[Brendan]

On Monday 26 May 2008, Milos Prudek wrote:
> I upgraded 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04. Everything worked perfectly. But nvidia
> proprietary drivers did not (I had the correct packages - nvidia-glx - for
> my GeForce4). So I removed nvidia-glx package and installed binary
> proprietary driver from NVidia website.
>
> Now everything works perfectly except logout. I use kdm. Logout from KDE
> results in a blank screen that does not react to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
>
> Workaround is: switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), login as root,
> run /etc/init.d/kdm restart.
>
> How can I fix this?

Same here. I switched to a text init 3 login, and loaded up an .xinitrc file 
with the contents:
/usr/bin/starkde

and I just kick off 'startx' to launch KDE now.

Annoying, but it works.