computer hangs up after shutting down X

haimat

Hi all,

I have a strange problem with my XFree86 installation. After booting everything works fine. After logging in and starting X (manually) everything works fine. But after shutting down the X server (in KDE via logout), the computer hangs up - the keyboard is "dead" and the screen remains black.

Does anyone has an idea?
Thx and greets, Matthias

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

I once had the same problem! What hardware are you using (CPU, Mainboard, graphic card...)?

haimat · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 7:29 am Post subject:

Hi there,

I have a Athlon XP 2100+, a GeFore4 Ti4200, MSI KT3 Ultra2 ...
And I tried it with gcc 3.2 - maybe that could be a reason?

greets, Matthias

TGL · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 8:44 am Post subject:

And you use NVidia drivers I guess... I've got the same kind of troubles, gcc2.95, with a geforce2MX on via KT133 motherboard. There are some well known "solutions" (don't use riva framebuffer in your kernel, switch from agpgart to nvagp, mem=nopentium on boot, disable agp fastwrite,...), but here nothing helps and I had to switch back to xfree "nv" drivers. What I do is I only use nvidia driver when I really have to play UT or armagetron.
One thing I didn't try is to switch to XFree 4.1 (as proposed here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=11341), and that may work because I don't have this troubles on my slackware8.0.

pilla · Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 5:48 pm Post subject:

Have you had a look at X output?