Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:13:31 +0100 (MET) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: Strange hangs (me too!!!) |
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: From: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>
: At crash time, I was doing a recursive diff between a CD I've read after I : burned it, and the original source directory. Since it was wait time, I : decided to start the X server, just to do some surfing while I was idle. : Stop. No messages logged. If that helps, I've loaded a modularized sr_mod : driver for the SCSI CD.
: I get this sort of crash once every 20 or so times I start the : Millenium II X server, both the official XFree86 version and the XSuSE : version. It doesn't matter what I'm doing at the time, apparently.
: I've reported this to the XFree86 people but they apparently ignored : the report.
This may be a hardware problem, and not something that XFree86 people are to blame for. I used to have the same problem (once in ten times, starting X would hang the machine; keyboard dead; often access via serial line or ethernet was still possible). Now, with different video card and motherboard, but the same X server and the same monitor, the problem has gone away. One could speculate that changing video mode generates a lot of electromagnetic noise, and that this might trip marginal hardware.
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