On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Chris Flipse wrote: > Is there a way to set up startx so that it will open on a specified tty > (say, tty 13) instead of the next available one? I know it can be done > with the various x login apps, but I've had some bad experiences with > xdm and wdm locking up my box, and I prefer not to take that chance. :)
I think I may be suffering from this. Every so often (it used to be rare, but just recently it's started to happen almost every time I boot, within a few minutes of booting) my machine will freeze up completely. The screen either goes grey or gets vertical stripes (or occasionally different patterns). Ctrl-alt-F? do nothing, neither does Ctrl-alt-Bksp or Ctrl-alt-del. I have one of those danged "intelligent" power buttons, so that doesn't work either. Unfortunately the machine isn't networked so I can't tell you if it is really dead or just all keyboard input is disabled. I am running the latest of everything as of a few days ago from unstable, and I have xdm managing both tty7 and tty8. My kernel is the kernel-package version of 2.2.7 - I want to recompile it but I haven't had a chance yet. Please, please, can anybody suggest a particular package or set of packages that could be downgraded to fix this? Also any way to keep the machine alive long enough to do the downgrade? TIA, Stuart.
