On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:39:18AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hi. > > :: Guenter Bechly writes: > > >> Anybody else having trouble with this combination? While running > >> 2.4.0-test10, startx hangs after showing a plain gray screen sometime > >> before completing successfully. At that point the system reponds to > >> neither Ctrl-Alt-Backspace nor Ctrl-Alt-Fn, so I hit the reset button. > >> > >> Note that the exact same configuration works great with 2.2.17 (thanks > >> for all your hard work Branden!). > >> > >> My hardware is a Matrox G400 video card and an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard. > >> If it would be helpful to see either my kernel configuration or X > >> configuration or both, I'll be glad to provide them. > > > Exactly the same here with XFree86 4.0.1-3 and kernel 2.4.0-test9 on Woody. > > Also my system runs with a Matrox card (Mystique 220) and works perfectly > > with kernel 2.2.17. There definitely seems to be something wrong! > > Any hints??? > > Since I'm using X 4.0 with kernel 2.4.0-test11 and everything is > running perfectly, I guess it must be the specific driver to your > video card - or something to do with the agpgart module (which isn't > used with my card yet). > > Did you try "Option NoAccel" in your XF86Config? You may want to try > enabling/disabling individual acceleration options there to see which > one is causing problems... The first thing I'd try would be disabling > direct rendering.
A temporary solution to this problem came up in one of the threads on debian-devel. If you are not running xfs, the xserver will go into an endless loop when encountering the line FontPath "unix/:7100" So comment that out. Apparently it has nothing to do with a specific video card or dri or agpgart. HTH, James Dietrich