On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Jan Korger wrote: > X hangs (does not respond the mouse clicks or keyboard input, you can > still move the mouse pointer for some time). If you try to change to a > VT, you see the X screen with some errors (like black bar on top) and > no mouse pointer. Entering CR sometimes moves the whole screen to the > left by about (very roughly guessing) 1" or 100px. Are you doing anything in particular when the X server locks up? Do problems only happen after your first attempt to VT switch away from the X VT? > Accessing the host via ssh works. No X related process (like startx, > xinit or the server itself) seems to be running except for 'xfs'. > Killing xfs does not help. Looking at the virtual console 'startx' was > executed on via GNU screen reads 'xinit: Connection to Xserver > broken'. Yes, then the X server exited. Please send this bug a copy of the logfile immediately after you experience this problem. You can preserve the logfile by, after the crash, starting the X server with a different display number: startx -- :1 > I guess the Xserver fails to tell the graphics adapter to go back into > text mode (BTW: I'm using the vga option in lilo to get VTs with 80x43 > chrs) on crashing and Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't do this as well. > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Mach64 LB rev 220, Mem @ 0xe4000000/24, 0xe6000000/12, I/O @ 0xd000/8 Do the XFree86 packages in Debian unstable work any better? They feature a newer upstream version of XFree86 (4.2.1 versus your 4.1.0.1). -- G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory branden@debian.org | test would pass it just fine. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ethan Benson
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