Re: [XFree86] Re: X 4.3 Freezes Computer when restarting

[Ken Stanley]

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 04:25, Tom Wesley wrote:

On Sunday 16 March 2003 12:04, Ken Stanley wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 01:42, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
>     On 16 Mar 2003, Ken Stanley wrote:
>     >When I try to restart X 4.3 my computer freezes completely after the
>     >screen goes blank. Something about X is not shutting down properly. I
>     >use Gnome 2.2, but it can't be that because this also occured when
>     > using twm as the window manager. What could cause X to behave this
>     > way?
>
>     Try disabling your sound card, so that sound drivers do not load
>     at all.  Then try starting and stopping X.  If that solves it,
>     then the sound drivers are potentially buggy.
>
>
> Actually, I don't have sound enabled already because this computer
> doesn't have a sound card. And when I tried compiling a new kernel I
> didn't compile sound drivers. I turned them off.
>
>     Another common problem is APM.  Disable APM in your BIOS, and
>     disable apmd from being loaded at OS boot time.
>
> Same as above, I don't have it, disabled it, and did not compile it in
> the customer kernel. Someone on another forum suggested it might be a
> hardware issue and to see if there is an update to my BIOS. I am going
> to try that first. Another thing I can try is to switch the hard drive
> out with the Windows 2000 machine and try to load X that way... that
> would definately tell if it's hardware.
>
>
>     If neither suggestion works, it could be an X bug possibly, or
>     perhaps something else.
>
>     --
>     Mike A. Harris

Are you using the framebuffer? That can sometimes freeze when leaving x.

Tom

I don't believe so. The only frame buffer I know about is when I use the vga option from LILO -- and up until an hour ago I couldn't use LILO because my mainboard didn't recognize my hard drive. I flashed my BIOS to fix that, also in hopes to fix X somehow. Didn't fix X. But I did find out that it has no problem using a different video card/mainboard/cpu. Could it somehow be a conflict between the savage driver and GDM? I feel like I've made progress, but I'm not sure how much or in which direction.