2005/12/22, Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You've checked the usual place for the X log, IIRC '/var/log/X*.log'?

As I said, it is a total freeze, and since logging is done *after*
something happens, my logs are just interrupted after the usual
startup.

> Also, if you can, try to ssh into your laptop from your other machine.
>  Many times I've found that my "freeze" is really just hardcore CPU
> thrashing from X, so I couldn't do anything, but everything else was
> still working.  In those cases, I could 'killall -9 X' and try again.

Didn't try ssh, but if that was the case, a soft halt pressing the
power button would work, and it doesn't.

> Also, "those cases" were when I was having trouble using the nvidia
> driver with the compositor turned on.  I'm sure you would've heard
> about these problems by now, but maybe this is something new.  If
> you're using the nvidia driver, try switching to nv.  Stability is
> almost always better--at a slight sacrifice for speed--and I read (on
> Slashdot, IIRC) that the driver should perform much better.  Or try
> turning off the compositing extension.

I've got a radeon. It doesn't matter what driver I use (ati, radeon,
fglrx), and compositor has always been off, since it never worked.
Obviously, in my first configurations with 7.0, I just need the server
to work, nothing more, so I've got no strange options :)

Thanks for your help
bardo

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