I think you are correct.. I remember locking up in KDE. After KDE locked
up, I reinstalled RH6.0 and
selected the option to NOT have "x" start on boot up. I have been entering
xstart from a command prompt
to starrt x. The video card was working fine under NT 4.0. I question
whether the terminal setting is ok.
I'm running the video card at 800x600 with a low refresh rate. Actually I
have a Number Nine Power Storm 3D
card.
Thanks,
CA Stauber
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Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Gnome locking up..
> If I understand things, Gnome is a collection of X applications, and
> should not be _able_ to lock up the system, unless the whole X session
> was started by root. Even so, there should be no code in Gnome that
> could lock you up. The X server is a different animal, and might,
> particularly if the display hardware behaves in a way the server doesn't
> expect. Could be a bug in the X server (_possibly_ gnome does something
> to provoke it - you could check by seeing if X will run something
> simple, like an xterm - move ~/.xinitrc to a different name, try xinit,
> and see what happens. If you get an xterm of the start of one but it
> locks up, gnome isn't the problem. An X server that thinks it knows the
> hardware, but is mistaken, runs more risk of locking up. A MACH32
> server trying to work a cirrus card, say.
>
> In <xroot>/lib/X11/doc you should find a bunch of README's for the
> individual servers which you might find helpful.
>
> <xroot> is /usr/X11R6 in almost all cases.
>
> If there is a newer version of the X server, it might work better.
>
> It could be a broken video card but I don't think so.
>
> HTH
>
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, astauber wrote:
>
> > Hello - I have just installed RH 6.0 for Alpha on my system. I am one
> of
> > the people making the switch from
> > AlphaNT to Linux.. I am new to Linux..
> >
> > I have everything configured and the system is booting fine.
> >
> > The first time I was in Gnome I was moving a panel around with the
> mouse and
> > the entire desktop locked up.
> >
> > I had to power off/on to clear the screen. On boot up - I received a
> couple
> > data corruption errors from the
> > hard power down. I boot up again just fine after the disk was scanned
> for
> > errors..
> >
> > When I enter startx for Gnome - I get the beginnings of the desktop and
> the
> > system locks up again.
> >
> > I had this problem earlier this week. I had to re-install RH 6.0 to
> clear
> > up the problem.. Now the
> > problem is back again..
> >
> > Has anyone seen a problem where Gnome locks up your system?
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your help.
> >
> > CA Stauber
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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