[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: | Stefano Stabilini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I am a brand newbie to Linux. | > | > I followed Debian's slink 2.1 standard installation and used dselect | > afterwards to add X server and clients. Linux sits on my first hd in | > partitions hda3 (linux) and hda4 (swap), the first two partitions are | > Dos16-big and host win 95. I successfully configured LILO so as to | > choose starting OS at booting time (that i am quite proud of...). | > | > My problems came with the installation of the X server: i tried first to | > get it from XFree86.org, and XF86Setup'd it, but it would only start the | > VGA16 server. Then i realized that i could download and install X via | > dselect, which i did overwriting previous installation. | > | > I have a Cirrus Logic GD5465 AGP chipset with 4MB RAM and a HP D2817A | > Ultra VGA monitor, so i am using the SVGA X server, which gets started | > directly on boot. I configured it with XF86Setup again, leaving RAMDAC, | > VRAM and clockchip to be probed and i chose an 800x600 16bpp resolution | > for the monitor. | > | > The server and client started smoothly, i am able to change video mode, | > but after a few minutes' work everything freezes and i am no more able | > to even Ctrl-Alt-Bksp or Ctrl-Alt-Del. Actually the only means i found | > to get unstuck without powering-off is rebooting via telnet from another | > machine. | | Are you running xdm? If so: | | /etc/init.d/xdm stop | | followed by: | | /etc/init.d/xdm start | | should restart X without rebooting the machine.
Also, you can switch to a different virtual console with the Ctrl+Alt+F# key sequence, where "#" is replaced with 1 through 6, thus avoiding going to another machine and telnetting in. | Why the lockups -- I do not know, but would suspect that something | from your previous installation of X is lingering around and causing | problems. [big sig deleted] Sounds like a reasonable guess, it could also be an I/O or interrupt conflict somewhere. Good idea to check your logs to see if anything shows up in there (files in /var/log). Gary
