Thanks for replying, Egbert!

On Thursday 13 December 2001 16:06, you wrote:
> Thomas Winischhofer writes:
>  > Well, after porting Egbert's changes into the 4.1 driver, this
>  > situation is as follows:
>  >
>  > 1) Screen gets initialized correctly - as far as I can see. I
>  > have not yet recompiled the kernel to try without vesafb, but I
>  > can switch modes in X (CTRL-ALT-+/-). 640x480 flickers a little
>  > bit (looks like a CRT when the "refresh rate" is too low), but it
>  > works basically.
>  >
>  > 2) Switching between VTs and X causes the machine to somewhat
>  > freeze randomly when switching back to X, i.e. mouse and keyboard
>  > dead, network ok. The system seems alive and I can see the X
>  > screen, but I can only power down the box by pressing the power
>  > switch.
>
> Do you have the impression that X is frozen or could it also be gpm
> which is still running and blocks the input devices?

I don't have gpm running, so I suppose that's not the reason.

> Can you kill X from remote? 

I am sure i could do this (am at work and have no proper network 
here). The harddisk seems to keep writing log entries, so I really 
believe that the System is alive.

I will test pinging the box (at least that's what the network here is 
good enough for).

> Could you please run strace on the
> Xserver to see where it is spinning?

Well, erm... I am not really a hacker but I'll try. Does this require 
any special environment, any debug modes and such? Recompiling?

>  > 3) APM causes trouble, too. Suspend works, but during resume the
>  > machine freezes (for real this time)... resume process is never
>  > completed (PCMCIA does not come up again) and even the network is
>  > dead.
>  >
>  > Hm. The simularities seem to be point out a problem when
>  > re-initializing the screen (switching back from VT to X <->
>  > resume). Furthermore, the problems are exactly the same for CVS
>  > version.
>  >
>  > Maybe I was too fast with my conclusions....
>
> Could you please try the server flag option "noPM"?

OK, I will and write again.

Thomas
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