To follow up to myself. I turned off the DRM and recompiled, and still I
see the same problem when I exit X (good thing I don't use X much).
Any ideas as to what the cause could be, so I can at least try to track it
down for ya?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Chris Meadors wrote:
> I finally got a kernel after 2.4.0-test3 to compile (it also booted just
> fine). So I started X to make sure it worked too. It seemed to work
> fine. So I quit X. I was left staring at a blank screen, not even a
> blinking cursor. So before panicing, I blindly typed "reset" and bingo
> everything came back just fine.
>
> I think this is probally caused by the 3DFX DRM driver. I don't need it
> (and I think I've heard that it doesn't even work right now), so I can
> compile it out of my kernel. But just to let who ever know what I have
> seen.
>
> Oh, BTW, I'm running XFree 4.01 if that has any berring.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
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