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Re: [SLE] Dell Inspiron 8200 Crashes on Exiting X - FIXED!
- From: "Bill Sheehan" <b.sheehan@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:13:32 -0400
- Message-id: <OFC52AD3C4.FD679242-ON85256BA2.000FFFF3-85256BA2.0011A7AD@xxxxxxx>
Well, I think I've fixed it...
I had scrambled things up pretty badly and decided to reinstall. This time
I did a straight install without LVM (which is a little ridiculous on a
laptop anyway - I just like LVM). I used the Ext3 filesystem rather than
ReiserFS, and to keep things simple, did not immediately try to upgrade
XFree86 or KDE. I downloaded the NVidia drivers from NVidia's website,
copied an Inspiron 8100 (same screen and video card) XF86Config file from a
fine gentleman online, and Voila! I have X! And when I quit X, I go right
back to runlevel 3 with no problems.
Happy, happy! Joy, joy!
The moral of the story is one every sysadmin knows and we all keep
relearning the hard way: start with a known state and only change one thing
at a time.
Bill Sheehan
Postmaster
617-373-7927
"Bill Sheehan"
<b.sheehan@xxxxx To: Magnus Hagebris <mhagebris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
du> cc: neal mcdermott <neamcd@xxxxxxxxxx>, suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] Dell Inspiron 8200 Crashes on Exiting X
04/18/02 10:59
AM
Sorry, I should have made it plain that my default runlevel is 3.
I can startx, I just can't stopx! <grin>
Oh - the ReiserFS note was simply that it's a journaled file system and
less prone to problems caused by improper shutdowns.
Bill Sheehan
Postmaster
617-373-7927
Magnus Hagebris
<mhagebris@ipdyn To: neal mcdermott
<neamcd@xxxxxxxxxx>
amics.com> cc: Bill Sheehan
<b.sheehan@xxxxxxx>,
suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
04/17/02 11:34 Subject: Re: [SLE] Dell
Inspiron 8200 Crashes on Exiting X
PM
Well, I do not know any more ways of killing the box ;-)
Cntr-Alt-Backspace will not kill the X server....
ReiserFS is a journaling file system , basically it should be less
sensitive to improper shutdowns. Those fsck are gone....
But I guess there is a slim chance of screwing up the system.
It might be a good idea to set default runlevel to 3, instead of 5.
Login on a console and just run startx.
/etc/inittab:
---------------------
# default runlevel
id:3:initdefault:
---------------------
But I would not be surprised if X windows still freezes on logout...
I have dual boot and XP freezes once and a while when accessing the
program menu. Not related though....
Cheers,
Magnus
neal mcdermott wrote:
> Magnus Hagebris wrote:
>
>> Once and a while I have the same problem with my Inspiron 8100 - ATI
>> Radeon 7500(64Mb) and SuSE 7.3(XFree86 4.2.0-2).
>> When shutting down X-windows the machine just freezes. I guess this
>> happens like 25% of the time and I have no clue why....
>> But I do not have to remove the battery, just hold the power down
>> button for a few seconds.
>>
>> Let me know if you find a solution, that might work for me as well.
>> When I have time I will upgrade to 4.2.0-64, but I am not sure that
>> will fix the problem.
>>
>> I did a quick search....
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/18434
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
>>
>> Bill Sheehan wrote:
>>
>>> I remember when Linux first came with XWindow support. It was a bear
to
>>> set up - I fought and struggled and filled sheets of paper with
modeline
>>> calculations. Finally, voila! A GUI!
>>>
>>> There's nothing like new hardware to bring back those good ol' days of
>>> abject ignorance (as opposed to mostly ignorant nowadays). I've just
>>> received a new Dell Inspiron 8200 complete with a gorgeous screen and
an
>>> NVidia GeForce 2 Go graphics card. It took a little playing around,
>>> recompiling the kernel without framebuffer support, and voila! A
>>> beautiful
>>> XFree86 screen. Only problem is, I can't quit. If I exit X, the
laptop
>>> crashes hard - so hard the only way to restart it is to pull the
>>> battery.
>>> (Lucky thing I use ReiserFS!)
>>>
>>> No errors appear in the logs, and I haven't found any answers in
>>> newsgroups. I'm running SuSE 7.3, XFree86 4.2 (downloaded the RPMs
from
>>> SuSE), KDE 2.2.2 (also downloaded from SuSE), and the latest drivers
>>> from
>>> NVidia (1.0 2880). I've tried disabling APIC, but the problem is the
>>> same.
>>>
>>> I've even tried running the laptop under WindowsXP, but I just can't
>>> handle
>>> having my computer turned into the Home Shopping Network. Does
>>> anyone have
>>> any ideas or suggestions of where to look?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Bill Sheehan
>>> Postmaster
>>> 617-373-7927
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I get this too with my Dell Inspiron 3500, and it happens at other
> times too, sometimes at boot up, sometimes restarting after having used
> the windows partition. I have had to pull the battery too. While I
> do not have a solution either, I was curious if any of you Dell users
> know if we have any other recourse besides just holding the power key
> or pulling the battery. What is the best course of action to deal
> with a mega freeze up? Doesn't either of these actions have a
> possibility of messing up the file system? Also, Bill, was what you
> said about ReiserFS, was that indicating that ReiserFS is less
> susceptible to being messed up in this way?
>
> Neal
>
>
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