On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Just guessing, your video is AGP and is probably on irq 11.
I have had problems with a specific ethernet card and and AGP on a desktop.
The offending card was an Intel EEPro 10/100.
Symptom was--activate network--video dies, network dies, computer wrapped
aroundself unresponsive to keyboard, ppp, telnet(no network card working)
requirieng a hard reset.
Changing the network card fixed the problem. The network card swapped out
worked fine in a non-AGP motherboard.
What happens if you have the card in, put X up then activate eth0?
If your X vanishes, you may have a hardware problem like mine.
Civileme
> Hello there!
>
> I need help figuring out what's happening with my X Window system on
> mandrake 7.0. I have a laptop computer with a multifunction card.
> Whenever the PCCard is in without LAN connection (eth0 up, no link),
> when I launch X, it just hangs there forever. If however I start X
> after taking the PCCard out (eth0 down), X works OK.
>
> I have the feeling it has something to do with hostname lookup vs.
> xauthority file, but I've spent hours trying to find out what do do
> about it, without success.
>
> If someone could help, that'd be great!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick Poncet
> Ontario, Canada
>
> PS: I have an expert install with medium security.
