Hi, I am one of those (poor) using the vesa-framebuffer on a Gericom Webshox Laptop (SiS 630) for making X (4.1.0-6 and 7) run at all. I'm running kernel 2.4.10, but the problem also exists in 2.4.9. Further, I am using KDE 2.2.1 - but that doesn't seem of importance either.
Not enough that this setup is not exactly the fastest, I am dealing with two really annoying effects: 1) Everytime I log out of KDE, the x-server (kinda') gets restarted (by design of KDE I believe), but - the mouse does not react then. Pressing CTRL-E at the login screen of kdm/xdm or manually restarting the xserver recovers this. WHY? 2) Even worse: As soon as I change to a VC (CTRL-ALT-Fn), the xserver crashes (or: "catches a signal 11" in x-speak) _whenever_ there's activity on the (ergo non-visible) x screen. This happens eg. as soon as the screensaver gets activated or - even worse, when the webbrowser draws anything in its windows such as an animated GIF. I believe that this has to do with xfree86 4.1.0 because BOTH phenomena do not appear under 3.3.6 (using the FBDev flavor). 1) Anyone experiencing the same phenomena? 2) Any ideas on how to change this? Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria Check it out: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webit.com/tw ICQ #63288080
