On Fre, 2003-02-21 at 01:20, Gary Greene wrote: > > On Thursday 20 Feb 2003 4:40 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 06:23, Gary Greene wrote: > > > I've got a little problem with XFree's beta release 4.2.99. When I > > > logout, or whenever the card blanks the screen (in X mode) my Linux > > > system hangs and refuses to come out of the sinal off status. This > > > happens only when DRI is enabled. with DRI off the card response > > > normally. However, there goes my 3D Hardware support at that time:( > > > > > > At this time I am forced to "zap" X to log in as another user, or since > > > I've got X set up as a SysV-styled service, I have to run /etc/init.d/dm > > > stop then restart it. > > > > Does that work even after logging out? Does setting up the display > > manager to always restart the X server work around the problem in that > > situation? > > It (my system) hangs whenever I try to logout with the dm.
So have you tried setting your dm up to restart the server on logout? They only reset it by default. > This is the reason that I am forced to either telinit 3 or "zap" X. This > same or similar issue has been reported on the DRI site by me and others > using the ATI Radeon (r100) chipset devices. The thing is, if zapping the server works, then it can't be something really bad like a lockup. Maybe the server is running fine, there's 'just' no display? > I'd have to classify this as a serious bug in the DRI/DRM architecture. Yes, but it only happens on some systems, can't reproduce it on any of the Macs here, nor did it ever happen on the x86 box at work, but then it's been a while since I last used that. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
