> > Running the same system as below, I eventually got X working.  However,
> > after about 20 minutes it up and dies.  It just hangs and won't go
> > anywhere.  can't even ctrl+alt+del.
>
> CTL-ALT-Backspace is more likely to be useful under X, actually. This
> will kill the X server. CTL-ALT-DEL is only captured on normal text
> consoles AFAIK.

it makes no difference.  nothing revives it . . .


>
> > nothing is showing up in logs as far
> > as i can tell.  It didn't start before X worked though.  Furthermore, now
> > that X is set up, my terminals are completely unusable.  Every other
> > letter is shifted about half a screen off.
>
> Are you using the normal text consoles, a VESA console, or some native
> frame buffer driver? Is X set to use the framebuffer interface?
>

How do i tell?

I managed to get it to stop resetting my time by getting rid of exim --
that seemed to make it somewhat more stable, but it just crashed again . .
. so . . . maybe it's just semi-random? i'm not sure . . . almost had 2
hours of uptime . . .

Joel
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