From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 19:25:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vortex.greycat.com (vortex.greycat.com [207.173.133.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D0F014FE2 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 19:25:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dann@greycat.com) Received: (qmail 13916 invoked from network); 5 May 1999 02:25:00 -0000 Received: from bigphred.greycat.com (HELO greycat.com) (207.173.133.2) by vortex.greycat.com with SMTP; 5 May 1999 02:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: <372FAC01.2C4ACB2E@greycat.com> Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 19:25:05 -0700 From: Dann Lunsford Organization: You're kidding, right? X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X crashes on exit References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 3 May 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: > > > Currently running 3.1-STABLE as of yesterday, but this problem has existed for > > a couple of weeks. I can start X just fine, either startx/xinit or xdm, and > > everything's cool. BUT... Any attempt to exit X, either logout/exiting the > > login shell, or CA-, causes an immediate crash. As near as I can tell, > > the entire system is totally hosed; no keyboard response, screen goes black, > > can't log in from a remote machine, etc. Have waited up to 30 minutes just > > to see if something wakes up. > > What happens if you hit a couple of keys on the keyboard? As I said, * no keyboard response * :-). Can't Alt-F* to get another vcon. This crash takes it *all* out. It's one of the bad ones, that drop you to single user and tell you to fsck manually when you finally get tired of waiting and hit TBRS. > > You may want to set up a serial console and see if the system is > panicking. Hmmm... Might try that, thanks for the idea. Somehow, this doesn't feel like a kernel panic, though. Feels more like something is hosing the hardware. This motherboard seems to be designed for M$ stuff, rather than something real, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. > > > DFI P5BV3+ (VIA chipset) motherboard, AMD K6-2 350 (not o/c), S3 Aurora based > > PCI video w/2MB, 128MB. Have tried everything I can think of. Anybody else > > seen something like this? > > S3 Aurora ... what X server does that run under?  XF86_S3. It will run under SVGA but poorly. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message