tag 259434 - moreinfo retitle 259434 xserver-xfree86: [mga] X server locks console at startup on MGA 1064SG [Mystique] rev 3 thanks On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:04:09PM -0300, Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote: > Em Tuesday 20 July 2004 03:39, Branden Robinson escreveu: > > tag 259434 + moreinfo upstream > > retitle 259434 xserver-xfree86: [mga] blanks screen and locks console on > > MGA 1064SG [Mystique] rev 3 thanks > > > Can you ssh into the machine (if you have a way of doing so)? Does the box > > respond to pings when it is in this state? > I can ssh into the machine and restart it. Apparently X is just locking the > keyboard. > > > What do you have to do to provoke this lockup? Does simply starting the X > > server suffice, or do you have to run some X clients or switch VTs? > just the X server is sufficient. > > > If the lockup happens when the X server starts, do you see an image > > displayed to the screen even for the briefest moment? > No image. The screen is black except for the topmost line that is filled with > apparently random colours. Thanks for following up! This definitely sounds like a driver bug. -- G. Branden Robinson | There's nothing an agnostic can't Debian GNU/Linux | do if he doesn't know whether he branden@debian.org | believes in it or not. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Graham Chapman
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