XFree86 on 5.2 crashes on logout

Dominik Epple epple at tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Sun Jan 18 06:38:25 PST 2004


Hi,

The following problem I have on an old PC (P2 400, Intel BX chipset
mainboard, nv tnt2 graphics card, nv driver in XFree86, usb mouse):

I can start X and work happily, environment is GNOME.  While using X,
I can switch to the text consoles and back without problem.

Then I finish the X session by chosing "logout" in the GNOME menu, the X
server exits and then the system is completely locked up. The system
switches to the console, which displays the ususal logging messages of X
but is dead, i.e. does not react on keyboard input, and login via the
net is impossible. A hard reset is required.

This happens in the following test cases: I did exchange the graphics
card and used an ati rage xl for testing, I used moused with sysmouse
protocol as well as direct access to the /dev/ums0 device with protocol
Auto for the mouse, it happens with startx as well as with using xdm,
and finally I tried disabling the "dri" and "dbe" (no clue what the
latter does anyway) modules in the XF86Config, everything to no avail,
the problem stays exactly the same.

The log files (XFree86 logfile, messages logfile) do not contain
anything unusual.

The XF86Config you find attached below.

It just seems that I am doing something in the very basics seriously
wrong, since the problem is uneffected by all of the above changes.

Any idea? Or is it just some dying hardware somewhere in the system,
i.e. RAM or the mainboard chipset or whatever?

The system is FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE with XFree 4.3.0. This problem
appeared after the reinstall of the machine to 5.2. The machine was
running on 5.1 before with no problems.

Thanks, Dominik.


# /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Layout0"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"

	# Load "freetype"
	# Load "xtt"
	Load  "extmod"
	#Load  "glx"
	#Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "speedo"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "SysMouse"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc104"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	HorizSync    27.0 - 92.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection



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