On Wednesday, 14 Mar, Sun Un wrote: > I recently installed debian-linux on a alphastation 250. Everything was > relatively painless. However, many > xwindows applications lockup. Do the applications themselves lockup, or is it the whole system that hangs when you run those programs? In the latter case, and if your video card is S3, try adding Option "no_pci_disconnect" to the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Nikita