I have recently installed SuSE 7.3 Linux (using XFree86 4.1.0) on a machine that had been running Red Hat 6.0 (and XFree86 3.?) without incident since 1999. The graphics card is an Elsa Gloria Synergy, which uses a 3Dlabs Permedia 2 graphics processor.
I am experiencing a problem similar to that reported to the Xpert mailing list by Nemanja Miletic in October 2001: when I attempt to switch away from X windows to a console the screen goes black, and the system is hung, requiring a manual reset to re-boot. This also occurs anytime an attempt is made to stop or re-start the X server, such as when logging out using KDM, or even attempting to shutdown the machine by executing the /sbin/halt command. I am currently booting to runlevel 3, and starting X windows manually from there. I have experienced this console black-out phenomenon when the text console screen saver turns on (before starting X windows). I have investigated the solution that Nemanja reported on 4 October, namely, changing the video mode at boot time via kernel command line parameters. This has had no effect. I have visited the SuSE support database and found a similar problem reported there, but only in reference to NVidia-based video cards; SuSE is recommending using the 'nv' driver rather than the 'nvidia' driver. This, of course, does not affect my case, which should be (and is) using the 'glint' driver. Has anyone else experienced this? Are there any thoughts as to what might be happening. More to the point, are there any thoughts on what I should try in order to fix it? Any insight would be much appreciated. Lou Hiener _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
