[ltp] T30 X windows lockups

[Bill Barnard]

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 01:21, Tino Keitel wrote:
> 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?

I'm going to try running with SpeedStep disabled from the BIOS menu
(power options) and see whether that helps. I'll report back if I see
any effect. I don't want to start upgrading all my X rpms unless I have
to...

Thanks for the suggestion,
-- 
Bill Barnard <bill@barnard-engineering.com>