Re: Instabilities in GDM

[Ben Rockwood <benr slip net>]

BINGO!!  You know exsactly what I'm talking about.  It hadn't happened
for a year and a half, I'm using a Matrox Millenium and I believe that
I'm running 3.3.2 of XFree86.  ...and the whole machine locks.

	I did seem more like an X problem then GDM, but when I heard
about "bugs", that was the only one I could think of.

	I don't know if I'll upgrade quite yet, but I'm glad someone
else can validate me.

	Thanx!!!!

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Richard C. Thrapp wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ben Rockwood wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've found some problems with GDM... namely that once in a great
> > while when someone exsists their account and GDM brings X backup
> > for the gdgreeter, X will choke and the box hangs with no video.
> > This is the first way I've found to "crash" Linux.  If I had
> > a network I wouldn't worry about it, and I'd just telnet in and kill
> > the X server, but I don't.
> > 	Anyone found a work around?  Also, on the RHAD Labs page
> > acouple days ago someone (Dr.Mike Ithink) said he was cleaning up
> > and debugging GDM... is this one of the bugs?
> > 
> 
> I don't believe it's a gdm bug, but an X bug.  XFree86 seems to lock on
> startup occasionally on certain hardware.  (I have seen it more often with
> Matrox cards).  It's rare and it took many months before it happened to me
> the first time.  If you have XF86 3.3.2, try getting 3.3.3.  It seems to
> lock about half as much.  And I think the entire machine is locked - not
> just the video (if we have the same problem).  ctrl-alt-del doesn't work.
> 
> Does anyone know any more about this?
> 
> -- Richard Thrapp
> 
> 
> 
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