On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Nick Henderson wrote: > Everything works up until I want to start up X 4.0.2. When I "startx" > or when xdm starts, the computer crashes and I have to do a hard > reboot. The screen turns black, but I think that the backlight stays > on.
How crashed is the machine? If you have another machine on a network, try logging in remotely to kill the X server. Also, look for for the XFree86 log in /var/log. Hopefully it will have some useful information about the crash.
