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 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
