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Re: wierd xfs problem.



Are you talking about SGI's XFS?

We have here at work a machine with Redhat 7 and XFS with it - not a single
problem (well, there is one - it seems that Star Office is crashing with it),
and it runs perfectly with XFree 4.x

Hetz

Oded Arbel wrote:
> 
> > > 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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> dreamings,
> and no cause to value the one above the other."
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Hetz Ben Hamo
Hardware Research dept.
Aduva Inc.

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