On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:11, Rob Giltrap - PO Box wrote: > On trying to logout of the system my machine consistently dies, I get a > black screen and the caps lock & scroll lock lights flash. Nothing works > apart from the power off button, thus I have no ability to further > diagnose the problem. This happens everytime. > > My machine is: > > Celeron 433 > i810 based mobo > 192MB memory > > Any ideas? > I was having the same problem until I commented out the following line: Load "dri" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. My machine has been rock solid since.
There has been a lengthy discussion about this problem in the limbo/null mailing list. If I remember correctly (most likely not :) ) it has something to do with the interaction of AGP between the kernel and XFree86. This is supposed to be fixed in future versions of the kernel/X. Hope this helps... -- Christian Thibodeau Open Systems Operations Common IT Services Ministry of Management Services Phone: 250-387-5993 Fax: 250-387-5766 mailto:jlcthibo@;uumail.gov.bc.ca http://cits.gov.bc.ca
