> >After some random amount of time, the X display will freak out, and go >sorta snowy on me. Ctrl-Alt-Bkspcing out gets me back to the command line, >but that's all screwed up, too. It almost looks like the monitor's lost >synch (It's a Sun 21", btw, on the off chance that this is a monitor problem >and not an Ultra 5/Mach 64 one, though I'm relatively sure I didn't have >this monitor yet the first time I ran into the problem). For what it's >worth, everything works like a charm under Solaris.
I've got the same problem here (Ultra5/Mach64). I can use the machine via net, only the display is totally screwed up, and I have to reboot the machine. This happens randomly but not as frequent as in Your case. However, IIRC since installing a 2.4.x kernel it doesn't happen anymore. Gruss Steffan PS: I'm using the XF86Config file as delivered with potato, only input sections are adjusted. --- I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
