On 30 Apr 2002, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 10:12, dave mallery wrote:
> <snip>
> > hi scott
> >
> > hardware: pIII-550E 256mb parity aha2940uw G200-16mb
>
> Is this a laptop?
> Other than it being a laptop it looks like very normal and well
> supported hardware.
not a laptop. justa box.
>
> > kernel currently: stock kernel-image 2.4.18_686-5 (same problem with -4
> > and a custom compile job) stock kernel has CONFIG FB=y
>
> Have you tried 2.4.17? There was a little mix up with a patch in 2.4.18
> that may be causing you problems. I dont think it would but try 2.4.17
> just in case.
wilco. maybe later this afternoon.
>
> > ssh: no go ctrl/alt/anything: no go
> >
> > machine is rock solid in console mode.
>
> So its completely fried? Do you have any other cpu and memory intensive
> processes that you can run on this computer. The 2.4.x series had a lot
> of changes in the VM implementation over 2.2.x along with a bunch of
> other stuff. XF86 stresses the system pretty hard sometimes. But since
> you can compile a kernel this is unlikely. Did you ever get a
> segfault(sig 11 I think) while compiling a kernel? If you did it would
> point to a hardware problem.
no visible hardware problem. no segfaults at all. this machine has
several years of fine performance.
i have compiled several kernels and the box runs [EMAIL PROTECTED] constantly.
have also compiled kernels with seti running. this machine ran 2.2.20 24/7
for weeks with the same XF86config-4. machine gets apt-get update &&
apt-get upgrade daily.
>
> > frame buffer command in XF86config=4 was commented back in 2.2.20.
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Generic Video Card"
> > Driver "mga"
> > # Option "UseFBDev" "true"
>
> So you are using XF86 4.1? Is this option still commented out for
> 2.4.x Have you tried enabling and disabling it?
i just tried startx with the FB option uncommented. the machine did not
freeze, however, i am back to the "no screens found" error which led me to
comment it in the first place.
X4.1.0.1 was installed when i did a cold start from a march '02 woody iso
image. has been fine once the UseFBDev was commented out.
<snip>
> Also are you running any services on this machine? Does it lock up as
> soon as you start XF86?
i run sshd ntpd and lpd. it hangs within 2 seconds of startx.
thanks again. maybe someone else will recognize the symptoms.
this is such a vanilla machine it is suprising that this combo of standard
gi items does not work.
dave
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