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Subject:    Re: [XFree86] Re: X 4.3 Freezes Computer when restarting
From:       Tom Wesley <tawesley () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-03-16 9:25:30
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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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