At first glance it sounds like a video card issue. My experience with X
in general has thus far dictated that if you don't see a desktop before
the crash, it's a video problem. But that's just a vaguely educated
guess. :)
-Alex
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 01:59, nate wrote:
> hello
>
> i've been using afterstep for a long time..probably 3 years
> now. on one of my machines(IBM Thinkpad T20), my afterstep
> has gone sort of down hill in recent months. Specifically,
> i use afterstep 1.6 from potato(compiled on woody) and
> when it loads it stalls for a REAL long time while the pager
> loads. Then everything is fine. This does not occur on
> 2 of my other woody machines which run afterstep 1.6 as
> well.
>
> i was getting tired of it so tonight i tried working with
> afterstep 1.8 and its much worse, I cannot get it to
> start at all, the only thing it says is:
>
> Detected colordepth : 16. Loading configuration
>
> it hangs there forever. I got it working a few times
> inside Xnest, but could not get it working on the real
> X server. I removed my ~/GNUstep directory to be sure it
> was using a clean config, to no avail. Both 16 and 24bit
> color depths are the same.
>
> so for now im back to afterstep 1.6, which works fine
> except for the significant delay when initially starting
> it(the stall prevents any other things from connecting
> to the X server while the pager loads).
>
> I tried running afterstep in debug mode (--debug) but
> it did not provide any more information(just that
> one line).
>
> KDE works fine ..afterstep 1.6 works fine ..my login
> manager is KDM. I tried it both through KDM and through
> 'startx' and ~/.xinitrc ..same results everytime.
>
> only Xnest seems to allow afterstep 1.8 to function(and
> even then many times it fails with the same error)
>
> Theres only 1 logged bug on the package which seems
> totally unrelated to this.
>
> i upgraded all my packages to the latest from woody tonight
> to be sure everything was clean.
>
> i'm really lost ..never have had afterstep do this to
> me before.
>
> any ideas are appreciated !
>
>
>
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