Re: strange melting screen when X starts
> Hi, have you manage to get X to resume properly?
>
> I installed xfree 4.0.1 deb (phase1 ~ alpha package). It seems to run fine
> except that I could not suspend/stand because when resume X would crash the
> machine completely.
>
I got a help message from Alexander Clouter. As he suggested I added a
line
Option "noaccel"
in XF86Config. I am not sure whether it works or not since I
haven't tried suspend mode again. And I will avoid suspending
before you try it. :)
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From alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk Tue Aug 1 13:31:23 2000
From: Alexander Clouter <alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk>
To: name <wx672@barclays.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:15:09 +0100
Subject: Re: strange melting screen when X starts
> 1) X can't be killed nicely. After ctrl-alt-backspace or 'exit' 'restart'
> from menu, it will get back to the login screen, and the system hangs up.
> But I can swich to text mode by ctrl-alt-Fx, and can also nicely back to X
> by alt-F7. And it also hangs up at the xdm login screen after comes back
> from suspend mode.
>
This is probably do to some of the X server acceleration functions being
activated that then play havac with your machine due to X not knowing
about suspend and hibernate.
Add to you XF86Config file under the graphics card section
---
Option "noaccel"
---
and see what that does. There are quite a few acceleration options
avaliable for the trident cards (see trident.txt or something
similar) that you can play with to try and get more speed or
compatibility from X. However usually these can be direct trade-offs and
only a trial and error approach method can find whats good and whats not.
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