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Subject:    Re: [XFree86] Re: X 4.3 Freezes Computer when restarting
From:       Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <michel () daenzer ! net>
Date:       2003-03-16 13:55:20
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On Son, 2003-03-16 at 10:50, Ken Stanley wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 04:25, Tom Wesley 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?
>         
>         Are you using the framebuffer? That can sometimes freeze when leaving x.

That's news to me.

> 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?

No, but there tend to be problems on server reset because those code
paths are only rarely tested in the drivers - see the recent threads
about lockups on server reset with the radeon driver.

Restarting the server instead of only resetting it usually works around
these problems; for gdm, set

AlwaysRestartServer=true

in gdm.conf to achieve that.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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