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Re: wierd xfs problem.



> > I've just fed up with my computer at work - it's Mandrake 7.2 updated
> > to XFree86 4.0.2, and whenever I kill the X for any reason
> > (CTRL-ALT-BS), xfs dies. I don't remember it happening with any other
> > machine, and my box at home, running Mandrake 7.2 updated just with the
> > stable updates doesn't display this behaviour. have any idea why ?
>
> Hmmm... Any error messages?
Nope. xfs just dies. nothing in the syslog.

> Do you run X from the consol?
No - from xdm.

> Does it reoccour if you rn a second X server ('startx -- :1')?
Don't know, I'll check.

> Keep in mind not to switch to the other X server after xfs dies, as X may
> easily hang your system when asking for a new font. Although I have a
> feeling you are by now all too familiar with that.
yea...  still remember the bouncing X problem with XFree86 3.3 and a badly
configured Xfs when booting to runlevel 5 and the OS doesn't do a
'respawning to fast' delay - happened to me a lot on RH6xs and SuSE6xs :-)

> Another small thing to check: 'xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -- :1' will skip
> most of the X startup scripts. Does it make any difference?
I'll check that.

One more question, if you please - what does agpgart.o do ? I get some error
messages about agpgart when X starts - something like :
/kernel/modules/path/misc/agpgart.o: init_module: device or resource busy
/kernel/modules/path/misc/agpgart.o: insmod
/kernel/modules/path/misc/agpgart.o failed
/kernel/modules/path/misc/agpgart.o: insmod r128 failed
and then
[drm] failed to load kernel module "r128"
(0): [drm] drmOpen failed
and then some messages labeled "R128" which generally look ok.
(R128 is my graphics adapter - Rage128 by ATI).

Oded

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"...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no
difference between those born of real things and those born of inward
dreamings,
and no cause to value the one above the other."
 -- HPL, from The Silver Key



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