And your graphics card is...
And your X Server is...
And your Processor is...
It could be all sorts of things, remember the X server is only part of the
equation. Are you running X that comes with it? Have you tried the SVGA, or
the VGA (or even the MONO) X Server? What version of X11R6 are you running?
Are you stopping any services that you shouldn't be? I had a problem with my
internet connection using lock files that stopped apps spawning because of
the lock files. I also had a problem with DNS and the X server because I
wasn't running BIND at the time! There are lots of variables. Try removing
the .Xdefaults file. Change your window manager, try xinit instead of
startx. There are lots of different things to try. Try setting it up
according to the X howto's on www.linuxdoc.org
and then if all else fails, try changing the graphics card.
Steve,
Guven Linux at 0.03
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Boswell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 June 2000 18:33
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X Windows in 6.2 is VERY fragile!
I've been running RedHat 6.2 for a few months now (and I've been running
Red Hat Linux in general for several years now). I've got it running on
three machines; two of them have X Windows installed.
But I can't get X Windows to work reliably in 6.2! (I don't remember
having ANYWHERE this much trouble with X Windows in previous Red Hat
releases.) When I start it, it looks like it's trying to start X
Windows, fails, and then loops back and tries to do it again. So it
just gets itself into a loop where it constantly fails, and there's no
way to stop it. Even worse, I can't switch to any other virtual
console, because it just switches back to the broken X Windows console.
Only if I Ctrl-Alt-Delete over and over quickly do I have a chance of
getting the machine back under my control.
The worst of it is, X Windows will work fine for a long time, then one
day I'll start up the machine & X Windows will be magically broken. I
don't know what the heck I'm doing to break it, but it's not like I'm
such a sloppy user that I'm just randomly trashing my system. X Windows
just seems FRAGILE.
My question is....when X Windows starts doing this, how the hell do we
debug it?
Steven Boswell
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