On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Stephane Louise <luigi+onl...@nerim.net<luigi%2bonl...@nerim.net> > wrote:
> Hi, > > > Brian Morris wrote: > >> Hey I just did an update today at the console, and >> starting up the window system after, the Xserver hangs. >> >> >> >> I can try reconfiguring the server first (I have a very plain system here, >> just openbox wm with a startx manual start), and/or I can test it by ssh >> line in case it is just the server/ keyboard hanging. >> > > My macmini here dies whenever I try to launch an opengl application (like > glxgears, glxinfo alone is alright though). When I say it dies, its: hard > freeze, cannot ping the poor thing throught network and it just stand frozen > here until the hard reset. > > I didn't have time to investigate, but if you have a composite desktop > manager, you may want to desactivate that to see if your Tibook survives > the X start up. > > Openbox I run is just a simple window manager. However I could try turning off acceleration of the server driver or even using a generic driver. These things have happened before and sometimes it was a bug and sometimes it was requiring to reconfigure the server options. but its interesting you can't even ping in. I wonder if that could be a kernel bug, the driver problem shouldn't kill the whole OS, should it ? however if you start the server remotely you may see error messages which otherwise are covered up and lost. I did that before too. just lazy now and a bit discouraged around obsolence issues in Debian in general not knowing if it is powerpc or debian or what. Anyway it has been a rather disappointing year for me with Debian and LInux with breakages over incompatibilities. Now I understand why some people keep a copy of old-stable around (which is Etch right now). brian
