Greetings all. Another update on my X display problem. I have letters scattered randomly & widely over the screen in a terminal outside of Xfree. The random freezes are still occuring about every 30 minutes or so. I now suspect I may have a failing video card. Any suggestions?
Chris W. On March 24, 2005 06:52 pm, Chris Wakefield wrote: > Hi Dave. > > Thanks for the good suggestions. > > I've tried a few of them. Right now I'm running on the "buggy" X and > monitoring from my other machine at the same time. I've dropped the number > of proggies. > Still not sure what's up, and I'll inform the thread when I figure it out. > > Thanks again. > Chris W. > > On March 24, 2005 05:36 pm, David Liontooth wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > To try to isolate the problem (I have no clue and others may have better > > suggestions), I would start just X, without running a desktop manager. > > Just type X at the command prompt -- that is to say, don't run gdm at > > boot, or kill it and log in without running X-windows, then type X. > > Open a new CLI (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and run top to see CPU usage. If you see > > the same behavior, you know the problem in in XFree86, not in any number > > of other apps that run when you run X-windows. I would in that case take > > the problem to the Debian X-strike force, and active and responsive > > bunch. > > > > OTOH, the problem may well lie somewhere else, and running X alone works > > fine. In that case, you could start a terminal session inside X-windows > > with a command like > > > > xterm -display <your machine name>:0 & > > > > (I've only tried this on remote systems running a vncserver), and then > > start one application at a time until you find the culprit. Sometimes > > moving the configuration files temporarily out of the way helps (for > > instance, ~/.kde). Or you could run icewm as your window manager and see > > if you get the same problems. > > > > Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
