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Date:      Tue, 04 May 1999 19:25:05 -0700
From:      Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X crashes on exit
Message-ID:  <372FAC01.2C4ACB2E@greycat.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905041531250.28350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote:
> 
> > Currently running 3.1-STABLE as of yesterday, but this problem has existed for
> > a couple of weeks.  I can start X just fine, either startx/xinit or xdm, and
> > everything's cool.  BUT... Any attempt to exit X, either logout/exiting the
> > login shell, or CA-<bs>, causes an immediate crash.  As near as I can tell,
> > the entire system is totally hosed; no keyboard response, screen goes black,
> > can't log in from a remote machine, etc.  Have waited up to 30 minutes just
> > to see if something wakes up.
> 
> What happens if you hit a couple of keys on the keyboard?

As I said, * no keyboard response * :-).  Can't Alt-F* to get another
vcon.
This crash takes it *all* out.  It's one of the bad ones, that drop you
to 
single user and tell you to fsck manually when you finally get tired of
waiting and
hit TBRS.   


> 
> You may want to set up a serial console and see if the system is
> panicking.
Hmmm...  Might try that, thanks for the idea.  Somehow, this doesn't
feel like
a kernel panic, though.  Feels more like something is hosing the
hardware.   This motherboard seems to be designed for M$ stuff, rather
than something real, so I 
guess I shouldn't be surprised.  

> 
> > DFI P5BV3+ (VIA chipset) motherboard, AMD K6-2 350 (not o/c), S3 Aurora based
> > PCI video w/2MB, 128MB.  Have tried everything I can think of.  Anybody else
> > seen something like this?
> 
> S3 Aurora ... what X server does that run under?

XF86_S3.  It will run under SVGA but poorly.   

> 
> Doug White
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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