On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 16:21, Lars G. T. Jorgensen wrote: > > I've installed the preview version of X 4.2. But I also have the > problem of X stopping with a black screen. When I logged into my > laptop from another machine I found out that it was modprobe that > tried to do: > '/sbin/modprobe -s -k -- char-major-10-134' > When I killed this process X continued and started up just fine. > Browsing the web made me suspect that it has to do with apm (the > kernel has some problems with ACPI).
Indeed, major 10 minor 134 is /dev/apm_bios. The X server opens that to be able to react to APM events. If you can't get APM working in the kernel, a workaround would be to remove /dev/apm_bios. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
