Re: startx

[<sballard@netreach.net>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Chris Flipse wrote:

> Is there a way to set up startx so that it will open on a specified tty
> (say, tty 13) instead of the next available one?  I know it can be done
> with the various x login apps, but I've had some bad experiences with
> xdm and wdm locking up my box, and I prefer not to take that chance.  :)

I think I may be suffering from this. Every so often (it used to be rare,
but just recently it's started to happen almost every time I boot, within
a few minutes of booting) my machine will freeze up completely. The screen
either goes grey or gets vertical stripes (or occasionally different
patterns). Ctrl-alt-F? do nothing, neither does Ctrl-alt-Bksp or
Ctrl-alt-del. I have one of those danged "intelligent" power buttons, so
that doesn't work either. Unfortunately the machine isn't networked so I
can't tell you if it is really dead or just all keyboard input is
disabled. I am running the latest of everything as of a few days ago from
unstable, and I have xdm managing both tty7 and tty8. My kernel is the
kernel-package version of 2.2.7 - I want to recompile it but I haven't had
a chance yet.

Please, please, can anybody suggest a particular package or set of
packages that could be downgraded to fix this? Also any way to keep the
machine alive long enough to do the downgrade?

TIA,
Stuart.