On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Dumas Patrice wrote:
>I have a laptop, with a neomagic 256 and an LCD display, redhat 7.2 with
>XFree86-4.1.0-3.
>After some time, X freeze, and the keyboard is also dead. However linux is
>still up, and it is possible to login remotely, for example with ssh, and kill
>any process, and reboot or halt. When I reboot, as soon as the computer goes in
>graphical mode, the same thing happen, this time with a black screen (keyboard
>does not respond). I can still log in remotely. If I halt, then everything is
>good.
>
>This problem doesn't show up under windows, but I still suspect a hardware
>problem. Is it possible to check hardware integrity with XFree86 ? Or have
>generate logs which give some insights in the problem ?
>
>
>Here is the command used to launch X:
>/usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp -logverbose 10
>
>I attach the XF86config-4 file
Upgrade to 4.1.0-15 from updates.redhat.com or by using up2date,
then add the following two lines to the Device section of your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file:
Option "XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect"
Option "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill"
That should prevent any lockups. Also, if your mouse acts funny,
or leaves mouse poop on the screen anywhere, use:
Option "swcursor"
Hope this helps,
TTYL
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