Hi, may be you are using the wrong X-Server? Just today I saw the same problem (blinking screen) and the problem was a S3-Server on a et4000 card.
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, T-SNAKE wrote: > Hi all. first post to the list... > 2: > When I try to run xdm to startup X, the screen blinks (ever so slowly) over > and over and doesn't seem to load X. I can see my prompt during the blinking > and I can type commands (one or two strokes at a time), so I did a ps to see > what was running and I got a list of UIDs which included the ps and bash, but > also had four UIDs involving /sbin/getty > When I kill each of those four processes and ps again, there are four more but > with higher UID (ie first they were like in the 100's then the 200's then the > 300's ...). I was in a rush to get to work this morn so I didn't think to > write down EXACTLY what was wrong. > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Chris > -- > '\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\ > Live on Real Audio Thursday nights 8-11 EST http://www.uvm.edu/~wruv > T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN:1868354 A DJ on a mission > CROSSFADE RECORDS http://www.crossfade.com/ Drug free techno > ,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
