Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-12 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
I suspect that the intel driver has a bug. ... and switching to an ATI 2600PRO card and using the radeonhd driver seems to have fixed the problem. So I'd say the intel driver has a bug. - Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-11 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability. Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets Why does the monitor change modes after logout, anyway? gdm isn't working at a different resolution than the desktop... - Mike -- fedora-list mailing

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:08 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability. Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets Why does the monitor change modes after logout, anyway? gdm isn't working at a

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-11 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:08 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: If your Multisync is like some of mine it has dual input capability. Sometimes when changing modes (such as after logout) the monitor gets Why does the monitor change modes after logout, anyway? gdm

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:08 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Why does the monitor change modes after logout, anyway? gdm isn't working at a different resolution than the desktop... Did you set a resolution in your personal preferences? I had to, here, since the default that X picks is

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:05 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Does the X server have to be restarted for every login? I don't know about now, but it's been found to be advantageous to, in the past. X is big, and if it eats your memory as it runs, it can be a problem on systems that run

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 22:56 +0930, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:05 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Does the X server have to be restarted for every login? I don't know about now, but it's been found to be advantageous to, in the past. X is big, and if it eats your memory as

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-11 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Does the X server have to be restarted for every login? I don't know about now, but it's been found to be advantageous to, in the past. X is big, and if it eats your memory as it runs, it can be a problem on systems that run continuously. There was a time when it

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:23 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Does the X server have to be restarted for every login? I don't know about now, but it's been found to be advantageous to, in the past. X is big, and if it eats your memory as it runs, it can be

blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-10 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Hi all, I have an HP DC7700 with an ADD2/DVI card driving a 1600x1200 NEC Multisync monitor, using the stock Fedora 9 intel driver. Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X will not run properly

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-10 Thread landon kelsey
I accumulate horror stories! I would NEVER buy an HP computer! Maybe a printer??? Take the thing back! I've had much luck with Dell refurbs! --- On Wed, 9/10/08, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: blue screen of death

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, I have an HP DC7700 with an ADD2/DVI card driving a 1600x1200 NEC Multisync monitor, using the stock Fedora 9 intel driver. Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-10 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X By any chance is your keyboard (or mouse) connected in some interesting way? Like wireless, through KVM switch, USB, or anything else other than PS/2

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X By any chance is your keyboard (or mouse) connected in some interesting way? Like wireless, through KVM switch, USB, or

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-10 Thread subhodip biswas
hi ! Sometimes, after logging out of a Fedora 9 gnome session, the screen goes all blue. Bringing up a text session (Ctrl+F1) works OK, but X will not run properly after hitting Ctrl+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Restarting the computer is the only solution for clearing the blue screen in X. I

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-10 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Mine occasionally change to reading the other inputs, if you have input selection you might try that. Or just another monitor, to see if the monitor is in any way the culprit. No, it's not that... the screen is blue, but if I move the mouse, I can see the gdm login dialog flicker by and

Re: blue screen of death after logout

2008-09-10 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect that the intel driver has a bug. Or an X race condition. I get problems with X restarting badly every once in a while (and this is across a very large number of different brand and chipset framebuffers.) In my case I can usually get