From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 10: 6: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CAE214BDB for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:05:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac8.wam.umd.edu (root@rac8.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.148]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25627; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:05:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac8.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac8.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA10151; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:05:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac8.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10147; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:05:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac8.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:05:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Tony Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 / GNOME problem In-Reply-To: <99092811561300.02374@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would tend to agree. I have not seen this problem in a while, but it ended up being a driver problem. I upgraded to a newer X server, and the problem went away. XFree86 3.3.5 is out now, it may be worth taking a look at it. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: AgRSkaterq | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message