on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:58:58AM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla (ogulla@uonbi.ac.ke) wrote: > Hi all, > First problem; X runs on my machine pretty well but crashes moments later (as > a result of a "fatal server lockup") on switching to a virtual console with > the Ctrl+Alt+Fn keystroke. My system specs are as follows:- This sort of behavior sounds like a server/driver selection or configuration error. I'd try a different driver, or a different configuration. I'm not specifically familiar with the i810 video card, but understand that developing support has been an ongoing issue, particularly from conversations with the LNX-BBC developers. From your log, looks like a possible buffer overflow. > Machine: Dell Optiplex GX10 > Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 "woody" Kernel 2.4.21 > X -version: XFree86 version 4.1.0.1 (protocol version 11, revision 0) > Video card: Onboard intel 810E > > The full server log is appended to the end of this message for your perusal. > > A similar installation on an equivalent machine but with an ATI Mach64 GB > graphics card does not suffer from this problem. A little bit of tweaking > XF86Config-4 like negating the UseFBDev option did not help much. Any > solutions? > > Second problem, issuing the command startx, fires up KDE 3.1.3 by default. How > do I set some other light weight window manager like fvwm to run by default > without using a desktop manager like gdm? Actually, I love KDE but arts has > issues with my sound card - Aureal Vortex au8220 and therefore want to kick > start some other wm. $ edit ~/.xinitrc $ update-alternatives x-window-manager > > ----------------------------X server output----------------------------- <snip> Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Remember Ed Curry! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/
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