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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:27:03 +0200 (EET), Tommi Kyntola <kynde@ts.ray.fi> wrote: [...] > > A similar things happened to me. I have a Toshiba Satellite 4080 XCDT, and > > switching from XFree to console and back to XFree becomed impossibile with > > the upgrade to Redhat 7.x and XFree 4. The problem is that the apm script > > use to switch to console mode when I suspend (es. closing the laptop) and > > when it resumes it tries to switch to XFree again, but this messes the > > screen. I am still able to come back to console and killall X, but of > > course I'll lose my current not saved works under X. > > > > Under XFree 3 I could switch from X to console and back without problems - > > anyway, after a couple of switches my laptop used to hang. I think X > > writes to the uncorrect memory regions causing my laptop to hang.> > This really is offtopic, because the above symptoms are caused solely by > XFree 4.1. The was discussion about this in XFree mailing lists. > > A quick fix is to get a newer RedHat Rawhide XFree86 rpm (atleast > 4.1.0-8 and later have that bug fixed) or better yet get a newer > tarball of X from xfree86.org Anyway, thanks. I'll try it when I'll have a fast connection next week (it's more than 18 MB download). > yers,> another member of "Linux on a Toshiba Satellite 4080xcdt (TM)" :) You are missing "proud" ;-) thanks -- Marco Ermini http://www.markoer.org Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. (a sig from Slashdot postings) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |||||||||
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