Hi all I've got a weird error that seems to crop up after being in X for a while. If I switch to a virtual console I see the login prompt fine. If I type my user ID, the cursor moves, but no characters are shown. Obviously nothing shows typing in the password. I can then type (but not see) something like ls, and get a screen full of coloured dots & lines, but nothing recognisable as text. If I switch to another console & back again, everything shows as it should, but then anything typed or echoed to screen after that is invisible (or shows as dots) until I flick elsewhere and back again. At first I thought the login problems were due to the recent pam issue, but I've done several dist-upgrades (tracking sid) since then, and a login after reboot works fine, as do virtual consoles before and, for a while at least, after starting X.
One other thing, which may or may not be connected is starting a second X session. Thanks to a recent posting here, I've managed to get :1 running with the vt8 qualifier, but the cursor in a term or text on window borders or toolbars, etc occasionally disappear, only to reappear when cycling to another workspace & back. None of these problems happen with the main X session on :0 There is an unresolved problem with dri/3D acceleration mysteriously stopping after a few days - one night it's working fine (TuxRacer :) ) then the next it's gone. I've no idea if this is connected to the other problems, as dri is working fine at present, but the other problems are there now. Running 2.4.4ac6, with a Matrox G450 & XFree 4.03 (blackbox wm) Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.