Machine STOPS when exiting X

ZagiFlyer · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 2:24 pm Post subject: Machine STOPS when exiting X

I've been using Gentoo now for quite sometime. Lately, I did a fresh install of Gentoo 1.4_rc4 on a Dell Latitude C800 laptop. Everything went swimmingly as usual.

After emerging xfree, creating the xf86config and verifying that the default WM starts, something unexpexted happened. I hit <CTRL><ALT>Backspace and the laptop display went white and the machine just stopped. No disk activity, no response to ANY keyboard input, could not be pinged, etc. It just died.

Any idea on what to check?
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zovex · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 13

Its possible that xfree dumped some useful info to its log file in /var/log/.