by Okay - this one really does have me stumped. I've upgraded from XFree86 4.0 as
supplied on the Mandrake 7.1 distro to XFree86 4.0.1 using the Xinstall.sh
script supplied by XFree86 - the graphics card is a TNT2 Ultra. And I've used
xf86config to produce a working configuration file that uses the "nv"
driver. The nvidia-0.94 driver is a no-go for me at the moment - it worked fine
with 4.0 but it really hates something about 4.0.1 and dumps sig 11, as
previously posted (probably something to do with having an S30 Anigma
motherboard).
I have a working X server - I can get gdm up and going and log in
normally. Then I hit the first snag - starting up my gnome session would get as
far as sticking the icons on the screen and then the monitor would go into
power save mode and the keyboard would lock up. Hmm. Further investigation led
me to xmms as the culprit - from any window manager at all, loading xmms stiffs
the X server, either freezing the screen and keyboard or switching the monitor
into power-save mode. Adding the Option "power_save" to the appropriate part of
the XF86Config did not help and I have dga disabled by use of the extmod. I
know xmms tries to use DGA if it is available, but as far as I can tell it
should not be attempting to use DGA if the ~/.xmms/config file specifies
enable_DGA=FALSE, and that is the case here.
Any clues?
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
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