Re: X freezes System ?

[Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>]

Martin Emrich wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I'm running sid very sucessfully on my laptop for some weeks now, so I 
> decided to give it a try on my deskop PC.
>
> So I installed potato, added the unstable/testing sources and did 
> "apt-get dist-upgrade", added packages until apt-get did not complain 
> anymore...
>
> then, I compiled my 2.4.16 Kernel.
>
> when I startx , it freezes at the gray-grid-screen, in the middle a 
> solid-gray field with a little white field (it looks like gdm has been 
> interrupted while drawing the login window).
>
> I have a PII400 with an ELSA Erazor III ViVo (Riva TNT2) graphics card.
>
> I have configured the X server to use the "nv" driver. what to do now ?
>
> I have to be fast to press CTRL-ALT-F1 before gdm tries to draw the 
> login window, or I have to reboot the machine via telnet...
>
> Any Ideas ?
>
> Martin Emrich (=Newbie)

Stop gdm by
# /etc/init.d/gdm stop

You could remove [gkx]dm from /etc/init.d so X doesn't start when you boot.

Any error messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Does XF86Config-4 use 
fbdev driver, and kernel is not configured to support framebuffer 
device? Do you have same problem with a stock kernel?

Try "XFree86 -configure" and see if it generates a configuration file 
that sort of works.

--
Jerome