Re: Funnies with gnome and X on 1.92

[Neil Thompson <abraxis metroweb co za>]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:39:51AM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 06:58, Neil Thompson wrote:
> > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:47:16AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:30:47PM +0200, Neil Thompson wrote:
> > > > Is anyone else having an interesting time with Gnome/xorg?  I'm
> > > > having a couple of regular, but intermittant problems -
> > > 
> > > The newest kernels have fixed several ugly DRI bugs that might be 
> > > relevant especially on intel i8xx hardware
> > 
> > I'm on 2.6.5-1.349.  One of the boxes is an intel (Dell GX270), the other
> > is a homebrew box with a Radeon 9200SE in an AGP8X slot.
> 
> Had a system lockup late last night (homebrew Athlon 1GHz on Abit
> KT7A-RAID, ATI All-in-wonder 8500 - far behind yours :-) after upgrading
> to latest kernel, but before rebooting, when attempting Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
> change from X to a VC.  Screen turned gray and no response from
> keyboard/mouse, including Ctrl-Alt-Fx, Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, Ctrl-Alt-Del.  Hit

I have the same problem (also intermittantly) when Ctrl-Alt-F1ing to a VC, 
sounds like there is an issue.

Hmmm...


Neil