Michael Hipp wrote: > This is a RH 7.3 desktop system ... > > If I Ctrl-Alt-F1 over to a console and then flip back, the screen has > graphical gibberish across the top. And it locks up hard upon return to X. > An SSH session from another box stays open, but commands like telinit 3 > don't work. But ps aux definitely shows X is running away with the CPU. > This is the lone entry in /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > (II) Open APM successful > > And before this APMD was running and it was the one hosing up the CPU. But I > disabled APMD hoping it would cure the problem. > > Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?
Blame Redhat. I saw the *same* exact behavior with RH-7.2 on a laptop. THen I built & installed XFree86-4.2.0 from source (wiping out the X that RH provided) and the problem completely went away. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 1:15pm up 77 days, 20:02, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.32 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
