Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/28/2007 04:55 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/29/07, Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like it might be[0], any chance you're using AIGLX/compositing? [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7916 Not using ALGX. Don't even know what that is. Processor/MoBo: Intel PIV

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 03:05:10AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Debian Etch Stable system running minimal X with fluxbox/blackbox. When switching to console ttys and then back, most of the time, as soon as I go back to X, the system just freezes and refuses to respond to anything and I have to

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/29/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much RAM is in the machine? 256 MB How much swap space do you have? 1 GB What video driver are you using? ATI Radeon Is direct rendering enabled? How do I check this? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
Deboo ^ wrote this at Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:30:36AM +0530 On 5/29/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is direct rendering enabled? How do I check this? glxinfo | grep dir If you don't already have the binary glxinfo installed, it's found in the package 'mesa-utils'. -- Yours sincerely

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/30/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/29/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much RAM is in the machine? 256 MB How much swap space do you have? 1 GB What video driver are you using? ATI Radeon Grep your xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) for a Driver line. That will

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/30/07, Kushal Kumaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is direct rendering enabled? How do I check this? See the output of glxinfo for a line saying: direct rendering: Yes or so. glxinfo is in the package mesa-utils. I commented the DRI in the modules section of xorg.conf and restarted X

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/30/07, Jostein Elvaker Haande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo ^ wrote this at Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:30:36AM +0530 On 5/29/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is direct rendering enabled? How do I check this? glxinfo | grep dir If you don't already have the binary glxinfo installed,

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 May 2007 01:30:36 +0530 Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATI Radeon This isn't enough information. Are you using the free driver (radeon) or the non-free, unsupported binary blob (fglrx)? - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Richard van der Veen
I also had with an Ati Radeon card this freezes ... but when i removed the dri module from the module section in xorg.conf. the problem disappeared. Seems you have the same problem. Hope this helps . Section Module Load i2c Load bitmap Load ddc Load dri ---

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/30/07, Richard van der Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had with an Ati Radeon card this freezes ... but when i removed the dri module from the module section in xorg.conf. the problem disappeared. Seems you have the same problem. Hope this helps . Section Module [snip] Load dri

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Richard van der Veen
On 30/05/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/07, Richard van der Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had with an Ati Radeon card this freezes ... but when i removed the dri module from the module section in xorg.conf. the problem disappeared. Seems you have the same problem. Hope

X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
Debian Etch Stable system running minimal X with fluxbox/blackbox. When switching to console ttys and then back, most of the time, as soon as I go back to X, the system just freezes and refuses to respond to anything and I have to reset using the reset button. What might be causing this? How can

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 29 May 2007 03:05:10 +0530 Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Etch Stable system running minimal X with fluxbox/blackbox. When switching to console ttys and then back, most of the time, as soon as I go back to X, the system just

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/29/07, Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like it might be[0], any chance you're using AIGLX/compositing? [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7916 Not using ALGX. Don't even know what that is. Processor/MoBo: Intel PIV 3.2GHz Core Duo on Intel D102GGC MoBo., VGA

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread fabio natali
Deboo wrote: [...] When switching to console ttys and then back, most of the time, as soon as I go back to X, the system just freezes and refuses to respond i had kind of a similar problem and i resolved appending vga=791 at the end of my boot string. (if you wanna giat, just have a look at

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/29/07, fabio natali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo wrote: [...] When switching to console ttys and then back, most of the time, as soon as I go back to X, the system just freezes and refuses to respond i had kind of a similar problem and i resolved appending vga=791 at the end of my boot