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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: [386bsd] X server crashing everything! Message-ID: <1992Nov3.040528.19772@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <Bx3MFo.IKJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 04:05:28 GMT Lines: 20 Gil Ephraim Levendel (gl5007@ehsn5.cen.uiuc.edu) wrote: : : When I use X in low resolution, ie 640x480, there : are absolutely no problems. : : When I switch to 1024x768, everything will work well : for up to a minute, then everything dies: The mouse cursor : no longer moves, I can't kill the server, and I cannot : even reboot the computer (using <ctrl><alt><delete>)! : I have just seen it with my colleague's installation. I solved it by trying to disable the shadow rams for both bios and video ROMs. I'm not sure why it works. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet