Re: Linux hangs... (where's "blank")

[Mart van de Wege <wege34 zonnet nl>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub aphid net> schreef op Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:10:18
+1000:

> <quote who="Mart van de Wege">
> 
> > > I've also had problems with lockups, which I have *felt*
were screensaver
> > > related.
> > 
> > Me Too!
> > 
> > In all seriousness, I have been having weird lockups lately
as well.
> > 
> > For the record:
> > kernel 2.2.19 with APM enabled
> > X 4.02
> > Gnome 1.4
> > and whatever is in Debian unstable at the moment
> 
> Right, lockups here too - I assumed xscreensaver, but hadn't
had time to
> look into it.
> 
> Debian unstable, gnome 1.4 beta1 from Ximian and Debian, X4,
yada.
> 
> Looks like there are a few similarities here -> anyone else?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
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Ok,

It's time for a dumb question. I've been tracing the changes I
made to my system before it started with the weird blankouts, and
the only culprit I can think of is gdm. The whole shebang of X
randomly locking during a powersave state started when I removed
the Helix/Ximian version of gdm and replaced it with the original
Gnome gdm as packaged by Debian in unstable.
Is this possible, or could I have missed something else (I'm
working from memory, so I am not quite sure)?
BTW it could be a generic X problem, as KDE shows more or less
the same symptoms, however instead of locking up, it resets the X
server and dumps me back to gdm. It's NOT the Nvidia drivers
mucking things up (that's a change).
For the record: gdm is version 2.0-0.beta4.15 and my system
*seems* to be behaving normal again.

Mart

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