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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.23 i686) When starting the XFree86 4.0.2 server on a ASUS L8400C Laptop with S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/MX-/IX (rev 11) the computer crashes completely. Screen shows X pattern background with some distortions in the upper 5th of the screen, kbd, mouse, eth interface don't react anymore. Only possibility for recovery is power cycle. Crashes sometimes at first X start. Crashes every time at second try (e.g. using [xkg]dm after logout, or using startx twice,...) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start X using startx (or using xdm, init 5) - crashes already in some cases 2. shut down X (logout or Ctrl-Alt-BS) - crashes in few cases 3. start X again using startx (if using xdm this is done automatically) - crashes always at this step at the latest. Actual Results: computer refused to do anything except for reacting to power cycle. Expected Results: X should have worked Workaround: Switch back to XF86_SVGA from XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-33 which works w/o problems.
Please attach the X server logs to the bug report, and your configuration files for X. I need the full details from the server logs to diagnose the problem.
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
Never mind the logs, and stuff. This is a duplicate, and a fix is in the works. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17991 ***