At first glance it sounds like a video card issue. My experience with X in general has thus far dictated that if you don't see a desktop before the crash, it's a video problem. But that's just a vaguely educated guess. :) -Alex On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 01:59, nate wrote: > hello > > i've been using afterstep for a long time..probably 3 years > now. on one of my machines(IBM Thinkpad T20), my afterstep > has gone sort of down hill in recent months. Specifically, > i use afterstep 1.6 from potato(compiled on woody) and > when it loads it stalls for a REAL long time while the pager > loads. Then everything is fine. This does not occur on > 2 of my other woody machines which run afterstep 1.6 as > well. > > i was getting tired of it so tonight i tried working with > afterstep 1.8 and its much worse, I cannot get it to > start at all, the only thing it says is: > > Detected colordepth : 16. Loading configuration > > it hangs there forever. I got it working a few times > inside Xnest, but could not get it working on the real > X server. I removed my ~/GNUstep directory to be sure it > was using a clean config, to no avail. Both 16 and 24bit > color depths are the same. > > so for now im back to afterstep 1.6, which works fine > except for the significant delay when initially starting > it(the stall prevents any other things from connecting > to the X server while the pager loads). > > I tried running afterstep in debug mode (--debug) but > it did not provide any more information(just that > one line). > > KDE works fine ..afterstep 1.6 works fine ..my login > manager is KDM. I tried it both through KDM and through > 'startx' and ~/.xinitrc ..same results everytime. > > only Xnest seems to allow afterstep 1.8 to function(and > even then many times it fails with the same error) > > Theres only 1 logged bug on the package which seems > totally unrelated to this. > > i upgraded all my packages to the latest from woody tonight > to be sure everything was clean. > > i'm really lost ..never have had afterstep do this to > me before. > > any ideas are appreciated ! > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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