On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 01:42, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On 16 Mar 2003, Ken Stanley wrote:
>When I try to restart X 4.3 my computer freezes completely after the
>screen goes blank. Something about X is not shutting down properly. I
>use Gnome 2.2, but it can't be that because this also occured when using
>twm as the window manager. What could cause X to behave this way?
Try disabling your sound card, so that sound drivers do not load
at all. Then try starting and stopping X. If that solves it,
then the sound drivers are potentially buggy.
Actually, I don't have sound enabled already because this computer doesn't have a sound card. And when I tried compiling a new kernel I didn't compile sound drivers. I turned them off.
Another common problem is APM. Disable APM in your BIOS, and
disable apmd from being loaded at OS boot time.
Same as above, I don't have it, disabled it, and did not compile it in the customer kernel. Someone on another forum suggested it might be a hardware issue and to see if there is an update to my BIOS. I am going to try that first. Another thing I can try is to switch the hard drive out with the Windows 2000 machine and try to load X that way... that would definately tell if it's hardware.
If neither suggestion works, it could be an X bug possibly, or
perhaps something else.
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Mike A. Harris
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