on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:54:55AM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe (avancouw@calpoly.edu) wrote: > Greetings - > > I set up X 4 recently, and have finally succeeded in making the tdfx drm > module cooperate with me... It works great, except for one thing: if I leave > the room for any period of time, say an hour, I can't expect my system to be > functioning when I come back. > > I can't quite put my finger on the circumstances, but I come back, my > console is blanked, and my system won't respond. I'm guessing a bad server, possibly memory problems, though I'd discount this until I eliminated the server. Root around for your X server logs (/var/log/XF*, ~/.xsession-errors, etc.), and see if there's anything suspicious lying around. > Even the SysRq key won't do anything. An unRaw, Sync, and Reboot command > via sysrq do nothing. How about remote access to the box? I've found that X *can* (and does) lock a box hard when it dies. > This always seems to happen sometime after the console blanks. I'm running > xautolock but it wasn't the cause -- i tried turning it off. Anyone have > an idea of how to circumvent this problem? Don't do that? <g> I'll admit I'd prefer fixing the bug. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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