Thanks for trying to help me. Yes, I have done a complete power off. I always leave my machine on 24-7, and have not had problems prior to this. (My old SCO-Unix 486 box ran 24-7-365 from 1992 through 1999 and was very rarely shut down and never had a problem.)
I have not made any configuration changes in this machine for many months and I have rebooted a few times since the last config change (when I installed win4lin) several months ago. Apparently, the monitor is dead. It is about two years old and has not given me any problems (19" Sylvania F91). So, I took the monitor off of my wife's machine and it works fine with my Windows 98 partition and with the non-X terminals. only F7 does not work. We have very stable and even power here (Arizona) and have had no power outages as far back as I can remember. The fact that everything works fine except X on F7 seems to suggest to me that the problem is not hardware, but something wrong with the X software. When I try to do startx on another shell terminal, I get a message saying X is still running and I can't kill it. How could that be hardware? Joe Original Message: ----------------- From: Peter Finderup Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:57:34 +0100 (MET) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [XFree86] X locked up and now will not load On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried to kill all related processes and it just respawns. > I have rebooted several times by shutdown -r now and by CTRL+ALT+DEL > Yes, the process IDs are different, and I have tried killing every > applicable process by the most recent process ID numbers, always > with the same blacked screen and respawn that locks up. Ok - I initially thought some glitch had happened that tripped the X server and once you got rid of it things would work fine again. Apparently that is not the case :( Did you try a complete power off? (sometimes a reset isn't as "complete" as a power off is) How long had the machine been on before things went wrong? Could you have done something that changed some configuration files some time ago without restarting X or rebooting? I have seen this happen a couple of times, where a machine seems to be perfectly configured until one tries to restart a service or reboot it whereupon it trips on a broken configuration file :/ Does the monitor work on other machines? If it didn't, that would be a confirmation that something nasty really did happen to the power and that your UPS didn't handle it all too well :/ In that case you might have an acute case of bad hardware on your hand and no amount of reconfiguration and software trickery will fix it :( -Peter -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
