-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hey all. I just had a problem crop up the other day, and it's got me totally baffled. I'm running slink, with the updates from netgod.net, and the 3dfx xserver from http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html (converted to .deb via alien). I have a 3dfx voodoo3 2000 card. I had no trouble getting X up and running with this setup, and it worked fine for about a month. But the other day, I logged out of X and noticed that the wdm login screen didn't come up. The screen was black, and I couldn't switch to another VC. I logged in remotely in checked the log files, but found nothing. kill (-TERM and -KILL) had no effect on the X server. So I rebooted...
After quite a bit of experimentation, I discovered the following: If /etc/X11/Xserver starts with: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA (or _VGA16) Console then nobody can start X at all. The screen goes black, CTRL+ALT+(BS || DEL) has no effect. However, if /etc/X11/Xserver looks like: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA (or _VGA16) Anybody ^^^^^^^ Then non-root users have no problems starting X. But root has the same problem as before. This problem shows up with both startx and wdm. I have logged in remotely and run startx so I could see all the output, but nothing interesting showed up at all. Based on the output, X thought it was running. Ctrl+C caused startx to exit, and it sent signals to the X server to kill it. It tried a SIGTERM, but that wasn't successful, so it sent a SIGKILL, then exited. However, the X server didn't exit, and the screen remained black. Does anybody have any suggestions as to where to look to debug this problem? I know it's not hardware related, because as I stated above, non-root users can startx if the /etc/X11/Xserver file looks right. It must be some kind of configuration thing, because XF86_SVGA (the 3dfx copy) and XF86_VGA16 both fail...I didn't make any changes to XF86Config. TIA, noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN9LnjYdCcpBjGWoFAQGnLwP9Hx/fZ7x5KW59SOlVvyq/rZxTprNvZ3Yi iibaYVov456Olh6FR6l2w7NtdzCnWh8EHttOIFyvuB48MfI3BqqmUMlnIaSbvhWX XLu1NxQlbZMSHZ79rjVDdEUlmMW5X6YTO+534fz/OGRyA6uO9+Ezjr+4rOXewIZv lMpSmg6My7E= =nUVx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
