On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:11:11PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi Chris,
2008/11/11 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
It all installed OK without any problems and ran OK. However since I set the graphics resolution to 1600x1200 (the display's default) it crashes *totally* on exiting from X. It's a total, hard, crash - CTRL/ALT/Fn won't switch to a text console, I can't ssh into the system (which I can before it has crashed) and I can't ping the system.
Sounds like a kernel oops or freeze. Do the Magic SysRq keys work?
They don't seem too even though '/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq' has a 1 in it. I've tried various ALT/SysRQ/<key> combinations and nothing seems to happen.
Next step would be to get serial console support in kernel and pump the output to another box, then trigger the crash by exiting from X. The relevant info should be useful to someone.
Will it be useful to me though! :-)
Do you get the same issue at a different resolution? With vesa X11 drivers?
If memory serves me correctly the "as installed" xubuntu before changing the resolution did work OK (i.e. I could log out of X and back in again). However changing to (for example) 1280x1024 from 1600x1200 doesn't change the symptoms at all now.
I'll try the vesa drivers if I get desperate.