X locks system up hard (APM?)

[Net Llama!]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> This is a RH 7.3 desktop system ...
> 
> If I Ctrl-Alt-F1 over to a console and then flip back, the screen has 
> graphical gibberish across the top. And it locks up hard upon return to X. 
> An SSH session from another box stays open, but commands like telinit 3 
> don't work. But ps aux definitely shows X is running away with the CPU. 
> This is the lone entry in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> 
> (II) Open APM successful
> 
> And before this APMD was running and it was the one hosing up the CPU. But I 
> disabled APMD hoping it would cure the problem.
> 
> Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?

Blame Redhat.  I saw the *same* exact behavior with RH-7.2 on a laptop. 
  THen I built & installed XFree86-4.2.0 from source (wiping out the X 
that RH provided) and the problem completely went away.

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