On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > I have a snakebite dual G4 Powermac. > I have Debian installed with XFree from CVS that is > just a week or so old. The problem I have has occurred > with all versions of X that I have tried. > My Mac has the GForce 2MX video card. > X seems to run OK but if I "log out" of X and try > to restart my display goes black. > I have to log in from another computer and reboot. > A wild guess is that the video card is left > in a weird state. Anyone else had a similar > problem?
I have come across a similar problem on an x86 machine with a G550 DVI card, running Debian. I have a similar machine running RedHat which does not exhibit the problem. IIRC, on RedHat xdm dies if the X server misbehaves, and init restarts xdm. On Debian, xdm retries the X server, and if X mis-behaves often enough* xdm ignores that X session. For me, I'm not sure whether the X server completed with the wrong return code, or DDC on DVI meant that the xdm gave up waiting for the server to restart. *tune with DisplayManager*startAttempts or DisplayManager*openRepeat in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config I never got to the bottom of this. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
