On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:50, Ken Stanley wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 04:25, Tom Wesley wrote: > > 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 > > > I don't believe so. The only frame buffer I know about is when I use the > vga option from LILO -- and up until an hour ago I couldn't use LILO > because my mainboard didn't recognize my hard drive. I flashed my BIOS > to fix that, also in hopes to fix X somehow. Didn't fix X. But I did > find out that it has no problem using a different video > card/mainboard/cpu. Could it somehow be a conflict between the savage > driver and GDM? I feel like I've made progress, but I'm not sure how > much or in which direction.
try adding vga=0 apm=off acpi=off to the lilo prompt, just to try tom
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