From: Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> [131002 20:16] Hi, I'm still trying to "unbrick" my old faithful laptop here. To simplify things, I stopped using dhclient. I did configure my IP statically and put the short and long hostname in hosts. If I boot without the network card (= no network) or put the network card in after boot, X11 starts up beautifully! If I run the network script in rc.d or leave the network card in so that it configures at boot, X will hang. Before booting, I checked that I can ping myself both as localhost as with the short host name. I'm quite clueless! The setup is quite similar to my newer laptop, except that I am running 6.1 instead of "current". Having thus excluded dhclient, I think this is some kind of bug. Riccardo
If not done yet, run a hardware test (my laptop, Thinkpad, has it in the setup). Especially the ram-chips and the video ram is a good idea to check. Is this some pcmcia network card or an original, internal one? herb langhans
