[CentOS] Back to my Xwindows kernel panic
Johnny Hughes
johnny at centos.org
Sat Jul 5 11:21:12 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have a newly built drive with 5.2 fresh install (that I will be
> cloning shortly) in my DECtop and it is failing with X the same way the
> upgrade from 5.1 drive did (not too supprising there).
>
> In 5.1 X worked. I could startx from init 3 and get into GNOME. Also
> VNC into the box and have a GNOME screen. With 5.2, I get a kernel
> panic. Well I guess it is a kernel panic because once I run startx from
> the console, my SSH session to the box from my notebook is frozen.
<snip>
Try 16bit X instead of 24bit (replace the 24 in xorg w 16) and see if
that helps ... also, you can boot the older kernel from 5.1 and see if
that helps.
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