On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 18:51, Debashis Bhattacharya wrote: > This laptop comes with ATI Rage Mobility M4 graphics. > > XFree86 (v4.1.0, as well as earlier version 3.9.something) appears to > have major problems with the video circuitry. Virtually every time one > logs out, or tries to shutdown the machine, the screen gets clobbered, > and the only way to get control of the machine back is by rebooting > it. > > While rebooting, 1-of-2 or 1-of-3 times, the display gets clobbered, > when the X server starts up -- boot proceeds fine until then.
We can only try to help if you provide more information, most importantly your XF86Config and X server log, > All these problems usually leaves the disk in a corrupted state (due to > power off required to regain control), requiring fsck to be run manually, > very frequently. If you can access the machine via network, you could ssh in to shut it down. Or you could build Magic Sysrq into the kernel and use that feature to shut down more or less cleanly. Or you could use a journalling filesystem. Or ... -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
