Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:52:42 -0500 From: Tony <tbrock@mail.phoenix.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 / GNOME problem Message-ID: <99092811561300.02374@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> References: <37EFC9B0.4DA8AC4B@Brown.edu>
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This sounds like a video driver issue. Any distorts on the console? Black screen? I had this same problem for a while, put in a different video card and things became significantly more stable. Also, try weeding out things like GNOME, KDE and enlightenment. Give something smaller like windowmaker a try for a while to see if the problem is appearant there. Add a swap file. I don't have a real answer. Nothing but speculation here. Tony On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Matt Pillsbury wrote: > Hello, > > I am running 3.2-RELEASE on a PPro 200 w/ 96 megs of RAM. I am also > using > XFree86 3.3.1 (for the RIVA TNT) and GNOME 1.0.5 (the one in ports). > When > I log out, the X server will lock up the console very hard--nothing > (CTRL- > ALT-DEL, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) seems to get through. I can still got to my > roomates computer and telnet in and everything works fine. When I do > "top" > or "ps -a" there's no sign of an X server process running, and I can > "kill > -9" just about everything in sight without getting my console back. I > end > up having to reboot the machine remotely to use it from the console. > > So, > > a) what can I do to prevent the X crashes? > > b) if I'm stuck with the crashes, how do I get my console back w/o > rebooting. > > Thanks muchly, > Matt > > -- > Matt Pillsbury "If you can't hear the signal, > pillsy [at] brown [dot] edu just enjoy the noise." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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