On 8/25/06, Tommy Drum <mycooc@???> wrote:
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> On 24/08/06, Deepak Mishra <xask.linus@???> wrote:
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> > Obviously your laptop does not hang at all, starting X cannot hang your
> > computer, you can test this by pressing caps lock and num lock keys.
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> Sorry I didn't mention that, caps lock and num lock keys are frozen;
> already tried that of course. Could you also try it out Matthias? In my case
> no ctrl+alt+backspace work, no console pops-up. Problem seems to be with the
> radeon driver, which seems to be in need of the options in corg.conf that
> I mentioned in my previous post. Anyone tried those out?
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> Here are some steps that might help you -
> > 1. Kill the X server by pressing ctl+alt+ backspace, now you must land
> > up to a text console
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> No key combination works, only hard shutdown; I mentioned to jaromil at
> the iludiamoci meeting in Pescara that there is Magig Sys Rq key that could
> be enabled in the debug section of the kernel configuration that helps out
> to sync and unmount discs and reboot the system with the alt+SysRq+certain
> keys. This would be the only thing that could work in this case.
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> 2. edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file -
> > come down to section "device"
> > find the Driver option change you current driver value to "vesa"
> > now start X by typing "startx" or whatever the command is , im not
> > actually sure.
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> Of course someone could try this out if he could access the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file; I cannot actually do that because I don't have a
> docked dyne (I'm away right now, and that's the reason for my missing gpg
> signature), and don't have the intention to dock on my brother's pc.
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> This technique will work on all mordern video cards, but the only prolem
> > you are going to face is that you will loose all video acceleration!
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> Either way the X600 only has 2D acceleration on linux with the open source
> drivers provided by xorg + DRI:
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
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> Ciao
> tommy
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Hmm i see your problem ..
i think dyne should have a boot option to boot into a text console, just in
case of emergencies like yours
like one that knoppix has - "linux 2" on the boot prompt boots you into text
mode

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