[Sderby] X freezes every time I use it!

[Ashley Heath]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:22:35 +0100
James Carter <jncarter2@lycos.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> 
> David Robson wrote:
> 
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>For some reason every time I log into my system I end up having to hit
> >>the reset button because X has frozen; No keyboard or mouse input is
> >>possible. This even happens even when I have no applications running,
> >>using Gnome or KDE. Are there any logs that I can look at to find which
> >>process is causing this to happen?
> >>
> >>James
> >>
> > 
> > hi,
> > 
> > I just joined the list so hi everyone else first ;-), anyway, you might find 
> > something useful in /var/log/XFree86.0.log (i think that's the default log 
> > location for X - if not try a find for that file) - if there is nothing 
> > useful in that file, could you tell us if this problem happens as X starts, 
> > or at random points - if its as X starts, have you tried using a 640x480 8 
> > colour screen setup?... 
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Rob
> > 
> Hi Rod
> 
> 
> I had a look in the log, nothing obvious there, the last lines are
> 
> GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 94500
> GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1072 hend: 1168 httl: 1376
>                 vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> Which are repeated ~20 times.
> 
> It hasn't happened today yet, I'll have another look when it does.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> James
> 
> 
Hi James,

Had similar issues with a Geforce 2 card using the generic nv module, just started happening out of the blue, I disabled glx and dri modules and the problem hasn't reoccurred.

Ash  

DRI AND GLX