Re: X hangs console since upgrade
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:00:43PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> Ok, first, try uncommenting the misc fontpath -- many programs require
> fonts found in misc, I think, and maybe this will fix the problem.
Well, it hangs before it starts a client, but I did have the fonts
uncommented before. I've tried several of the obvious permutations. I wish I
could get some information out of it so I wasn't just going blindly. I tried
gdb too, but the hang was two or three "???" levels below InitOutput, and I
kind of hoped things would be easier than going into xsource.
> Second idea -- try setting your mouse protocol to something specific.
> Third idea -- try removing the gamma and dpms options from your monitor.
Tried those.
> Fourth idea -- try one or the other of SWcursor or HWcursor.
> Fifth idea -- try uncommenting PciRetry.
No luck there :(
> Sixth idea -- try uncommenting MGASDRAM.
> Seventh idea -- try uncommenting Overlay.
Those are for different (recent :) Matrox cards.
> Eighth idea -- try uncommenting SetMclk.
Do you know where this is documented? I didn't ind it in the XFree86 or mga
man pages...
> Ninth idea -- do you really have four megs of RAM on this board?
Yup. (Tried it with and without the option)
> Tenth idea -- the log file mentions the machine hasn't mtrr support.
> Perhaps this needs to be enabled in your kernel?
What's MTRR anyway? I haven't changed the kernel in a while, but I'll look
for that when I recompile it out of desperation :)
Thanks for the suggestions,
Robert
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