What problems are you having? What is that crazy state? On what machine configuration does this crazy state happen? Gilboa On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 07:54 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:37:10AM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > In general, a simple change in the BIOS AGP/PCI settings can cause a > > stable machine to go wild. > > Can you post the machine hardware configuration? > > BTW, "DontZap" "False" is the default. You can delete it altogether. > > > > Gilboa > Two things.. What kinds of things do you need to know about the > hardware configuration. We are having the same problems on at least > three different hardware configurations and two machines that are > exactly the same hardware and (as far as we can tell) exactly the same > software configuration act differently. That is what makes this all so > infuriating and mysterious. > > I know "DontZap" "False" false is the default but since the same > hardware acts differently ion different physical machines > we did not want to depend on defaults. > > > > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 10:03 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > We started out with the realization that ctrl-alt-backspace would not > > > work on our FC4 lab machines to restart the X server. > > > > > > Research led us to inset the following clause in the xorg.conf to > > > disable this key sequence altogether: > > > Section "ServerFlags" > > > Option "DontZap" "true" > > > EndSection > > > > > > Logic then led us to wonder if the clause: > > > Section "ServerFlags" > > > Option "DontZap" "false" > > > EndSection > > > > > > would allow ctrl-alt-backspace to operate as it should. The answer we > > > found was sometimes. In several cases two machines with identical > > > hardware and identical software would have different behavior. One of > > > the pair would work and the other would go into a crazy state where > > > rebooting became necessary. > > > > > > Does anyone have any further wisdom of this matter that they are > > > willing to share? > > > > > > -- > > > > > > ======================================================================= > > > Do not meddle in the affairs of troff, for it is subtle and quick to anger. > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > Aaron Konstam > > > Computer Science > > > Trinity University > > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > >
