On Sunday 16 March 2003 12:04, Ken Stanley wrote: > 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. > > -- > Mike A. Harris
Are you using the framebuffer? That can sometimes freeze when leaving x. Tom
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