Johan Sandblom wrote: > I am running Debian unstable on a Lenovo Thinkpad X61. I dist-upgrade > frequently. Since about two weeks I get thrown out of my X sessions a > lot, and then I have to log in again, which of course is very > annoying. No specific precipitator of the crashes has become evident, > but it appears to happen mostly (but not exclusively) when watching > video with either vlc, smplayer or ogle. > > At about the same time as this started, I noticed that I no longer > have access to other virtual terminals through Ctrl-Alt-F1 and > similar. Trying to access them either causes X to crash or does > nothing, randomly. > > Does anyone recognize these problems, and if so, is there a solution? > Sorry for the vague descriptions instead of a proper bug report, but > since I cannot find a way to reliably cause crashes, I do not know > what package to file a bug against. It is most likely some part of the > X conglomerate of course, but it appeared to me that the lack of > virtual terminals could be related and I do not even know what package > handles that. > > Regards, Johan > > I've got the same machine running squeeze and haven't experienced anything like what you're seeing. I'm using xdm and xfce4; I tend to use realplayer and flash (in Firefox) for video.
It might help to give a bit more detail on your X environment. Regards Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org