William D Waddington wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Have you tried removing/renaming /usr/X11/lib/modules/libvbe.so ? > > That fixed it. Thanks! I guess I should have spotted that in "bugs" > somewhere, somehow... > >> A bug introduced in build 35 causes some machines to lock up with >> that module in place - so far it had only been seen on Ferrari 4000 >> laptops with Radeon x700 graphics, but yours may also be affected. > > It also seems to apply to my "white box" Intel D945GCZ + ATI Radeon > x600 PCI-express (all-in-wonder). > > (for posterity) > I renamed the offending lib, and ran kdmconfig. Per the instructions > that kdmconfig generates when Xorg is selected: > > I ran Xorg -configure , moved /xorg.conf.new to /usr/X11/xorg.conf, > rebooted, and Bob's your uncle. The ChipID trick is no longer necessary > for the x600. It seems to work fine with an unmodified xorg.conf - so I > could probably have skipped generating xorg.conf and left it for auto > generation.
Crud. I forgot I don't have an uncle Bob :( The libvbe.so "fix" worked on the first reboot. Since then, it hangs after displaying a few stars in the "wait for gui login" message. Consistently. Selecting the "vesa" driver in xorg.conf causes a kernel panic - but not a hang. Going back to Xsun seems to work reliably - so far. Anything else I can test/try? Thanks, Bill -------------------------------------------- William D Waddington Bainbridge Island, WA, USA william.waddington at beezmo.com -------------------------------------------- "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
