Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Ok, some progress: > > The second problem was entirely a false alarm - somehow when I was > testing whether it was my .xinitrc, I only copied (rather than moved) > my .xinitrc to not be parsed... the reason X was crashing as me was > because the window manager is crashing (and that has to do with fonts > and themes, which I mostly expected anyway). > > And so I now have: > - X still locks up switching to TTYs. > - This happens regardless of whether I'm running X as root.
This is a video problem... wrong drivers, or too many modules. > - 'startx ; init 3' doesn't work (it makes no difference). It was worth a try. you may have a console anyhow. > - Xorg.0.log shows nothing, and neither does the STDOUT (as seen by > 'startx &> startx.log' - looking at it in X and after a reboot shows > it to end at the same place). > What's your video card? > I notice though that the logs are saying they 'failed to load module > i915'... something in me thinks, somehow, that this is important. I > will try recompiling X tonight with that as the XF86CardDrivers in > host.def, and see if that makes any difference. > > -- > Lennon Victor Cook > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- With best Regards, Declan Moriarty. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
