I'm running the current Woody release. My graphics card is a Radeon 9200 SE. My problem is that the X server dies and restarts. It dies in 2 situations:
(1) when the system is idle for 20 minutes or more. Following is a bunch of consecutive lines from syslog, when nobody was logged in: Feb 24 19:32:12 leo gdm[242]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 19:52:14 leo gdm[469]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 20:12:16 leo gdm[482]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 20:32:18 leo gdm[502]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 20:52:20 leo gdm[515]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 21:12:22 leo gdm[528]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 21:32:24 leo gdm[548]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 21:52:26 leo gdm[561]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 22:12:28 leo gdm[574]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 22:32:30 leo gdm[594]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 22:52:32 leo gdm[607]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 23:12:58 leo gdm[620]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Feb 24 23:33:00 leo gdm[640]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 (2) When I run mplayer. This reliably kills the X server. Following is my XF86Config-4 file: ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the # "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below. # # To change things within the debconf section, run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 # as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Radeon 9200 SE" Driver "vesa" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Compaq V70" HorizSync 60-72 VertRefresh 76-86 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Radeon 9200 SE" Monitor "Compaq V70" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Generic Mouse" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection ### END DEBCONF SECTION Any ideas/suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]