On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:25:14PM +0200, Andreas Mattheiss wrote: > > for some time I've been experiencing system freezes on launching XFree86. I > fire up X, but the screen remains black, and the system won't accept any > commands any more (CTRL-ALT-BCKSPACE or switching to other ttys won't work > any more). Only recurse is a reboot. This happens about 50% of the time. Once > X has come up it continues working as normal - safe for occational lockups, > but I think this is not so much of an X issue; happens when I transsfer data > from one disk (attached to on-board controller) to another (attached to > controller card).
At what version upgrade did this start happening? It may be my fault. > and a TYAN Trinity Mobo with a Matrox Mystique G200 AGP Graphic Card. Assign > IRQ to VGA is enabled in the BIOS. cat /proc/interrupts gives > > CPU0 > 0: 99046 XT-PIC timer > 1: 2308 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 3: 136 XT-PIC serial > 5: 7 XT-PIC NE2000 > 7: 102 XT-PIC HiSax > 9: 6241 XT-PIC ide1, usb-ohci, usb-ohci > 10: 601 XT-PIC bttv > 12: 12241 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse > 14: 1596 XT-PIC ide0 > 15: 720 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, Ensoniq AudioPCI > NMI: 0 > LOC: 0 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 0 The IRQ doesn't matter except to the DRM, which you don't need for 2D stuff. Are you using or not using the Matrox HAL? If you are using it, try Option "NoHal" in the Device section. -- Ryan Underwood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
