[ltp] T30 X windows lockups

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:21:38 +0100


On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:48:53 -0800, Bill Barnard wrote:
> I'm running Red Hat 7.2 on a T30 (2366-21U) with the Ximian Gnome
> Desktop and XFree86 4.1.0. Everything works great except that 
> X will occasionally lock up (or it may be that I've actually crashed
> linux since I can no longer even ping the laptop from elsewhere.)
> 
> Thise requires me to cycle the power to regain control. So far I've been
> unable to correlate the lockups with any particular action(s). Naturally
> this means I've been unable to do any real troubleshooting of the
> problem.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced and/or solved such a problem?

Have you tried to switch off acceleration or using an XFree86 4.2.1
Xserver?

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