Hello chaps, Apologies for leaving it so long before following this up - I followed your advice below, M�ns, but unfortunately I couldn't spot anything particularly wierd in the X or Kernel logs.
However, I've just been reading the Framebuffer Howto at Ibiblio, which states in several places that there can be a conflict between the Vesa framebuffer device and Permedia cards. As I'm running the Redhat 7.3 Distribution kernel (not for much longer, though, soon as I have the time... ;) ) I imagine I've got VesaFB support compiled in, and FB modules for other cards lying around. Could this be the problem? For completeness, I would be compiling in PM3FB and setting the 'usefbdev' option in X, but will this solve the problem here? If this is the problem, how does bootstrapping it with 'X -configure' get around it? Intregued, -Oli >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M�ns Rullg�rd) ===== >Oliver Comber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> We installed a dual headed Appian Permedia3 card recently, and all was going >> well - both heads up and running and the decent config recorded in >> /etc/xf86config - until we rebooted. >> >> Basically, the whole machine freezes the first time X is started UNLESS X is >> first 'bootstrapped' by starting with "X -configure". After this, switch to >> runlevel 5 and all is well. >> >> I imagine that the probing X does to autoconfigure must set some >> things on the card which the standard X driver doesn't do. > >That isn't the case. The probing is done by the standard drivers. > >> Has anyone else come across this, and is there a fix? > >Can you try to obtain a log file? Mount the filesystem where your >/var is with option sync, typically something like > > mount -o remount,sync /var > >Then try to start X. Reboot and post /var/log/XFree86.0.log here. >Also look for anomalies in the kernel logs. > >-- >M�ns Rullg�rd >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
