X locks system up hard (APM?)

[Michael Hipp]

On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:48 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> > On Friday 05 July 2002 03:42 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>As did I.  Are the other RH-7.3 boxes identical hardware?  You wanted a
> >>fix, i'm giving you one.  Rebuilding X should take less than an hour on
> >>a PIII-500 or faster CPU.
> >
> > Well I did that. And the problem is worse. Now X won't run at all, I
> > just get the garbage across the top of the screen.
>
> which is it?  does X not start or do you get garbage?  it can't be both.
>
> did you generate a new /etc/X11/XF86Config ?

X starts up then I get a black screen with multi-colored garbage across the 
top. And the keyboard appears to be locked up (can't Ctrl-Alt-F1 or 
anything else) but mouse still moves. SSH in from another box and see that 
X is using all the CPU.

I used the same /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.

Thanks,
Michae