On 9/21/05, Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? An onboard intel thing - if it helps, Ubuntu (or, now, the GNOME 2.12 live CD) works well with it set as 'i810' in xorg.conf (although this is also what I compiled XOrg with... ).
My attempt to compile Xorg with '#define XF86CardDrivers i915' yielded an error during make to the effect of 'Could not find i915: no such file or directory'. So much for that idea. :-) -- Lennon Victor Cook -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
