Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-18 Thread Kevin Ross
> I've got VESA to work now. I had to set it to use a bpp of 8, and > then it came up fine. My computer has been up for 15 hours now, and I've > been in X all this time; so I guess things are working alright (Although > none of my consoles work now. *sigh* Something about the refresh rate > bei

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-18 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: > > What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card > > beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. > > Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA > driver is limited in what resolutions an

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
> What's funny is that VESA comes up right, it detects my card > beautifully; but then it complains that there aren't any screens. Sounds like it can't find a matching resolution and refresh rate. The VESA driver is limited in what resolutions and refresh rates it will support. In Section "Moni

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Simon Law
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: > > I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My > > predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine > > whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes > > of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's

Re: X hangs in mysterious ways

2001-05-17 Thread Kevin Ross
> I am running Sid with XFree86 4.0.3-3 on Linux 2.4.4. My > predicament, you see, is that my X server seems to hang the machine > whenever it fancies. I have maximum uptimes of about 15 to 20 minutes > of usage. If I don't touch my X server, it's fine. If I don't use > my X server, it's fine.