On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:22:32AM -0700, G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Nice. And it ends .... where? > > Hey All, > > I have yet to see this mentioned on the list, so I fingered I had best > ask.... > > > Nightly X11 dies a sad and horrible death. > This is the second week that this has been occurring. Do you use a screen saver (which only happens to engage at night?). I faintly remember somebody mentioning problems with openGL screen savers causing lock-ups. DPMS is a possible culprit too. > Cooling is MORE then adequate (27" box fan blowing on an open case). No ice bags? (beware of condensation) :-) > Log files show little or nothing. What little do they show? There may still be clues in them; more eyes are a good thing. The log from the X server ( from startup) combined with the config file may provide clues. > apt-get dist-upgrade ran yesterday What distribution are you running? potato, woody/stable, testing/sarge, unstable? Was the X server upgraded too? > Abit KT7A > 512 megs > Athlon 850 (not overclocked) > 3DFX VD3 3000 Which version of X are you running? Relevant bits of the config file would be helpful too. > Anyone else suffering? > > Also, for an undetermined amount of time (just noticed it last week), I can > NOT get to a console. When I attempt to (from kdm logon screen), the > resulting screen has the kdm background picture, and the video stops > responding. I've had similar problems (but with a different graphics card). Seems like it (sometimes) has problems restoring the text-based vt's. Luckily the keyboard still works there, so I can log in "blind" and run "mode3" (from the svalib-bin package). At least that restores the vt to text. YMMV. RTFM. I presume that everything is working OK while in X? > In this I mean that ALT-F7 does NOT return me back to kdm, or if > it does, the screen is NOT changing. Subsequently I either have to ssh in > from another machine, or CTRL-ALT-DEL to boot it back to sanity. Any > idears??? Thoughts??? Comments??? Flames??? :--) [I never had that half of the problem] Definitely sounds like an X server problem. I guess that nobody will have a solution - at least until more information is available (see above). -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
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