On my home workstation, I have an intermittent problem with X running
away. The machine is a 1GHz Athlon-C, 768MB RAM, GeForce4MX/64 MB. It has
been occurring for the past several months. Basically, what happens
(normally, after the screen blanks) is that the XFree86 process starts
eating 97-100% o
ugust 21, 1998 7:21 AM
Subject: RE: Runaway X
>Thanks, everyone for all the help. Here's what I found that might be
helpful
>to others starting out:
> 1. From a virtual console, pressing Alt-Fn on the keyboard switches
>control to virtual console n. However when X is running, the com
econfigured wrong?
Thanks,
Harry Hersh
> -Original Message-
> From: Rafael Cordones Marcos [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 6:10 PM
> To: Debian Users
> Subject: Re: Runaway X
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:40:18AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:40:18AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >
> > Once I can stop the looping, I can start figuring out why the server
> > only comes up in 340x200 mode and why /dev/psaux doesn't work as a
> > Microsoft mouse port.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Harry Hersh
>
I don't know if this mi
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Hersh, Harry wrote:
> Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp
> connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have
> bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an
> endless loop it cannot get out of. The prob
>Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp
>connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have
>bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in> an
>endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in
>the boot sequenc
Hersh, Harry wrote:
>
> Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp
> connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have
> bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an
> endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm someh
> Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp
> connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have
> bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an
> endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in
> the boot se
Debian 2.0 installed on my machine amazingly easy, including ppp
connectivity. However, now that I'm trying to get X up, things have
bogged down. In trying to debug XF86Config, my system is caught in an
endless loop it cannot get out of. The problem is that xdm somehow is in
the boot sequence and
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