On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Larry Price wrote:
>When I run startx with a ppp connection going that connection is killed.
>
>starting a ppp session under X works about half the time.
>
>This is annoying to me to say the least, a bit of googling suggests that
>this can be caused by an IRQ conflict, but this appears not to be the case
>from what I can decipher from my configuration settings.
>
>Any suggestions for diagnostics, files to look at, to confirm or deny the
>IRQ hypothesis, or other possible causes, noteworthy places to look ...
If your /etc/ppp/options doesn't include the "debug" keyword, try adding
it. This makes pppd fill up your log files with reports of its progress,
which might provide some clue about what's going wrong.
(Which log file? It depends on what's in your /etc/syslog.conf...the
messages will go to wherever "demon.debug" messages get sent.)
- Neil Parker, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. Many video cards have a jumper that controls whether the card sends
vertical retrace interrupts. I believe IRQ 10 is traditional for such
cards, which makes a collision with the serial port IRQ (usually 3 or 4)
unlikely, but it might be worthwhile to make sure your video card's IRQ
jumper (if it has one) is off.
