Hello, this is not a problem as such. Rather a curiosity, but if someone could tell me what is going on -- I'd really like to know.
>From time to time, my system just stops. Circumstantial evidence points to my putting this Athlon in power-saving mode as the reason, but that's not the topic here. The curious thing I notice is that when I hit the reset button, the system boots, fsck's... lots of text scrolling by... eventually gdm comes up and I log in... and here it comes: while Gnome2 starts (large box with several icons coming up) the screen will, for a brief moment, SHOW ME THE VERY SAME PICTURE as I had when the system halt occurred. This lasts only for the fraction of a second, but long enough to be sure that it is the very same webpage, or document, or whatever, I was staring at a few minutes before, realising that I need to reboot. The first time I thought it was me hallucinating, but I've had it several times so far. In fact, every time when the system just ground to a standstill. I'd consider it reproducable if i knew how to provoke the preliminary system halt. What I don't understand is how the picture manages to come back. Or rather, in which forgotten deeps of my video ram it manages to survive. Isn't the video hardware being initialized first by the chipset, and later when X comes up to show me the gdm login? Not to mention the fact that there are lots of different stuff being displayed before this 'ghost picture' makes it's reappearence. cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
