On Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:22 pm, J. Joe Wang wrote:
> I met a problem with the XFree86 of my RH7.2 box. Hope somebody can help
> me out. Thanks in advance!
>
> The problem is the machine usually (happened per 1-3 days) goes into a
> status that there is no response from the X Windows system at all. All
> the stuff on the screen stopped. There is no response too when I pushed
> the "Num Lock" button. But some services are ok (apache http service,
> ftp service and etc).
Can you telnet or ssh to the machine? From there you can try killing X to see
if that brings about any response. Or you could try starting a secondary X
server ("startx -- :1" might work).
Probably if Num Lock fails to respond, Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
won't work either, but try them anyway.
You should probably upgrade to XFree86 4.3.0. You're using 4.1.0, and
possibly a copy mangled by Red Hat.
On my machine, when I try to start X with dri support, I get a blank screen
yet Num Lock still works. When I telnet in to kill X, the machine halts and
I am forced to reboot. Therefore, you should try to save all important data
and issue the "sync" command before attempting to kill X. (I have to use
kill -9 since XFree86 gets so screwed up that it ignores SIGTERM.)
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Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/
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