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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 10:18:02
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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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