David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> wrote: > I suppose this is maybe not the best place for this question, but if I > am to have my packages ready for slink, I need to figure this out > quickly. I kind of wonder if the motherboard is wacked... I don't > need more stress:-( I don't know about the video card, or what mother board you have. I have a 'S3 Trio32/Trio64' video card, a ABit PH5 motherboard, and I have the _EXACT_ same problem... With a little load on the machine, X vanishes, leaving the static X image left... Usually I can log in from the outside, and shut it down (or restart X again, but closing that, just returns me to the static X image...) I was recomended on linux-kernel to try some VGA programs, to reset the display, but so far none have helped. I've also been told (on the same list) that I have a crappy motherboard... You could try 'restoretextmode' and 'savetextmode' to restore the VGA display... It didn't help me, but you might be luckier :) I have an average uptime for about 2 days, then it krashes... This sucks, but hey! It's better than Windows :) -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org> ( D | e | b | i | a | n ) Debian Certified Linux Developer \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ Surrey/B.C./Canada -- nuclear spy arrangements security Honduras Peking Semtex Treasury Panama DES Qaddafi Cocaine FSF Nazi counter-intelligence
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