Russell Berry wrote:
>
> Greeting fellow linux users,
>
> I'm cross posting this to X11 and kernel, at first glance the bulk of you will
> insist that this is not a kernel issue. Indeed, maybe it isn't, but please
> read on, I'll try to be brief.
>
> The issue involves two machines, both running 2.0.30 at the moment. One is a
> P100, the other a P60. the 60 has a cirrus 5432 chipset vid card, running
> Xfree863.1.2, the 100 is a diamond S3 chipset (not virge) running Xfree863.2.x.
>
> Here's the story, every since 2.0.29, I will loose /tmp/.X11-unix/X0=, the X
> connection. The chain of events prior to this loss vary. Sometimes I'll be
> running netscape, sometimes not. Sometimes I'll be doing absolutely nothing,
> try to open an Xterm, and the connection will be gone. All the windows and
> apps that are open and running when this happens continue to work fine. This
> is a very strange problem, I log my X sessions, and nothing comes up in the
> logs except the X connect loss messages at the end where I tried to open
> something.
>
> If this happens while I'm away, like when the screen has gone into suspend
> mode, I can't get the display back at all. If I turn the monitor off and back
> on it complains that the signal is lost. So I have to go in from a terminal
> and kill the X session, or restart it. Again, the X0= socket will be missing.
>
> This happens a couple of times a week on each machine, the machines are not
> connected to one another. One is home, and the other at the office. It's
> getting to be quite annoying.
>
> If anyone can think of anything that has come about since 2.0.28 that may be
> causing this, please let me know. Actually I'll entertain any ideas, flames,
> comments, etc...
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> ---russ
>
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