Hi all. I'm having a bit of a problem with my x installation. It seems to have come from no where. Prior to today, everything was working fine, I had not experienced any problems. I rebooted my machine because of a problem I was having that turned out to be an bad ethernet cable. Anyhow, after the reboot I invoke "startx" from bash. A black screen pops up and the system is locked up. Everything is locked. I cannot change consoles, I've had an ssh connection open to the computer and after I invoke a startx the ssh session is terminated, so all I can do is restart the system. Pings are not responded to as well. I have checked the logfiles for the the syslog, and messages and there is nothing suspect in them, no panics from the kernel, nothing but system init stuff. The funny part is my x log is never written to. The logfile I have is from 2 days ago when I last started the xserver. I am at a loss as to why the log file isn't written. I was hoping somebody would have an idea/suggestions. My system info is as follows: XFree86 4.3.0.1 2.6.4 kernel gnome 2.4 as window manager Using ATI dri drivers (fglrx) for a radeon 9600mobile A slackware 9.1 install & using dropline I uninstalled/re-installed the xfree86 packages via pkgtool thinking possibly a file was corrupted or someone a permission was changed but this did not help. I made a very conservative xconfig file using vesa but this also did not help. Also GDM and the like perform exactly the same way. A blank screen and a hard lock. If anyone has ideas please let me know! I can post log files if necessary (As I said x's log file isn't even pertinent because its OLD) but it will be a pain doing it without x working, but I assure you no messages from the kernel are recorded when the computer locks up. Thanks, David Swiston _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
