On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:35:30PM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote: >My X freezes up every now and then, forcing me to power-cycle. I'm >suspecting a problem with X, but I'm not sure. > >Hardware: > > % lspci|grep VGA > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter > >It doesn't really happen regularly. I don't keep my computer on always, >usually I turn it on and sit for a while then turning it off when I'm >done. It usually happens once per "session". Sometimes twice. It's >happened three times for the first time today. > >My X.org config for the card: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card" > Driver "sis" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > Option "HWCursor" "on" > EndSection > >Any suggestions on how to solve it? After checking what Knoppix uses I've switched from the sis driver to vesa. It seems to work well, but I'm not really sure what I've given up by doing it. /m -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works.
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