Umax Pulsar with Woody freshly installed: X freezes
Hi,
after I reorganised my hard disks I reinstalled Debian via Network install.
The installation is fine, the system works fine when in console mode. But when I try to launch X the Server freezes after a few seconds. A normal "startx"-sequence never comes to an end, and just starting the X-Server itself - without any WM or something else - is no problem. Launching a XClient from the Command Line then freezes the screen, just the mouse cursor can be moved around. Eterm for example is capable of creating a menu and a backdrop, but no shell process is launched.
>From this point on the CPU usage increases, reaching levels of more than 1. When I log via ssh I can kill -9 the X-Server, but the screen won't come back.
When running the X-Server "stand alone" and switching to console, and finally back, breaks everything, too. The server freezes, the keyboard won't respond. I need to reboot.
My setup is:
Umax Pulsar with (currently) one 604e/233
592MB RAM
Matrox Millenium II w/ 4MB in Slot B (PCI:0:14:0)
Kernel: Default Debian 3.0 installation kernel (2.2.20) or compiled 2.2.22
Boot-Options (BootX): video=matrox:vesa:0x193 (1152x864@32Bits)
I tried using the Kernels Framebuffer as well as letting X take control over the screen itself. I reduced the resolution of the Framebuffer, and the default resolution for X. I tried changing the kernel from my own one to the standard installation kernel (and back).
Running X -probeonly doesn't show any errors.
Disabling DRI (because I read in the archive that there might be a problem in the standard package) by uncommenting the Load "DRI" line in the modules section didn't change anything.
I would be happy if someone out there would take some time to help me with this issue, I'm totally lost.
Bye,
Christian
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