[olug] SuSE 9.0 problems w/X freezing

[Eric Pierce]

Just completed a network install of SuSE 9.0 which I thought went without a
hitch, but I can barely use X as it freezes within minutes each time I start it
up.

I used SuSE 8.2 on the same machine and had basically no probs with my video
hardware setup (NVidia TNT2 32mb) w/3D acceleration.  Now I can't even get Sax2
to stay up long enough (before X freezes) to try some different settings, and I
don't know much about editing the XFConfig file except that it seams I need to
run SuSEconfig after making any changes.

Without ssh'ing into the box to kill X, I'm willing to bet that the kernel is
still purring along in the background because I did have one 3D accelerated
game (Marble Blast) that would bring X (under 8.2) to its knees.  I could kill
X after ssh'ing in, but I couldn't get my screen back. <reboot>

I did have a peek at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but I can't see any errors logged
(not sure exactly what to look for all the same).

Any suggestions?

Thanks for reading my garble!
Eric Pierce


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