dswiston@xxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 > 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 Is this computer system stable, and hardware error-free after replacing your bad ethernet cable? Run CPU and disk intensive tasks, like compiling a large project e.g. XFree86, linux kernel Try replacing the ATI binary driver (fglrx) with the XFree86 open-source 'ati' driver. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
