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From: Amal D'Silva (amalsummnet.com)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 06:26:01 CST

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    At 01:05 PM 1/19/02 -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
    > > > I have a UP2k+ with dual 833/4MB DDR CPUs (SRM 5.8-81) with 18 GB
    > > > SCSI and > an Oxygen VX1 32 MB card running RH7.1 ( kernel 2.4.3-12
    > > > smp) and XF86 > 4.0.3-21
    > > >
    > > > The system is working fine at the Linux command line, but on starting X,
    > > > the system randomly hangs with the keyboard locking completely and the
    > > > display going blank. Sometimes it launches X correctly and in such
    > cases,
    > > > it works fine.
    >
    >Something to try immediately: disable hardware cursor via:
    >
    > Option "SWCursor"
    >
    >in the Device Section. VX1 is nasty WRT the amount of time it takes
    >to change the cursor shape, and sometimes this causes problems.

    With Option"SWcursor", the problem still persisted, but seems to have been
    solved once I used the "no_accel" option (in addition) . The system is a
    compute server and fast graphics is preferable, but not terribly important.

    >Two other suggestions:
    >I. use a much later kernel, say 2.4.16/17, than the stock one in RH7.1
    >2. download and build XFree86 4.2.0 which is just released, I believe.

    Will need to download 4.2.0 and try. kind of slow with a dial-up connection :-(

    Thanks.
    Amal.

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