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From: Tony <tbrock@mail.phoenix.net>
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Subject: Re: XFree86 / GNOME problem
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:52:42 -0500
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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."
> 
> 
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