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On Wednesday 16 April 2003 6:50 pm, Darke, Clive wrote: > Has anyone else had the following console probs? Similar problems but not down to the console - down to the X server configuration. It was on a laptop when I had to run XFree v3.xx. I couldn't use Alt-F1 etc. until recently and only now with Mandrake9 is it sorted. I believe it is to do with the X server not releasing the framebuffer - my problems were characterised by never being able to see the shutdown/reboot screen. All I ever had (until Mandrake 9) was the background screen to the login box. During sessions, I'd also be unable to get to Alt-F1->6. > Sometimes, when I logout from GNOME, the machine hangs, and a reboot is > required. On Compaq, the keyboard lights flash. Sign of a warm reboot. > This is intermittent, and across an number of (similar) machines. > May be connected with this, switching to a character session > (ALT-F1/F2/etc) from a GNOME session will kill the GNOME session, switch to > character, then switch back to the GNOME login. If the GNOME session is > not signed on, or we already have a character session signed on, we don't > get the problem. > > RH 7.2 was OK on this h/w. 9.0 does not give the first problem, but still > sometimes gives the second. 7.2 was using a much older X server and the improvements in 9 have solved part of your problem. You could install a newer version of X (not for the faint-hearted as X configuration is often best left to an install program) or try Mandrake9 or Yoper - both use newer releases of X. Yoper may be useful in that it doesn't shy away from non-GPL X drivers like nVidia so it may find a driver that matches your hardware more precisely. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/
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