[mythtv-users] OT problem with Xorg

[Mark Greenwood]

On Monday 30 June 2008 20:27:51 Gary Dawes wrote:
> 2008/6/30 Joe Ripley <vitaminjoe at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Gary Dawes <gary.dawes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've popped the use events true in the Xorg,conf, and checked that there
> > is
> > > plenty of disk space, even checked that the network is up - I'm stumped.
> >
> > It sounds like X might be stuck in a loop of some kind.  strace might
> > be able to give you some info on what it's doing...  try something
> > like this:
> >
> > # ps a |grep X
> > (get X's pid)
> >
> > # strace -p 4066
> > (or whatever X's pid is)
> >
> > The output may give you some insight as to what's going on.
> >
> > --
> > Joe Ripley
> >
> > <vitaminjoe at gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks for that. I think (everything crossed) thta I have now managed to
> resolve it. "useevents" "true" and a couple of other driver config tricks
> did not fix the problem, but since I started using Myth I have had a custom
> PAL modline, which is now crippling Xorg for some reason. Strange as I have
> not changed anything  for months, software or hardware wise, and have used
> that modeline for years.
> 
> Just happy that it's fixed.
> 
> On a OT aside, we have just taken delivery at work of 55 Windows servers
> which are to replace 1 small IBM P5 running AIX. Same software from same
> supplier, just the windows version on top of Windows instead of Unix as we
> have very little professional experience of Unix, and the decision has been
> taken to base everything on Windows where possible
> 

Hehe, 55 Windows servers replacing one IBM P5..... ain't Microsoft great? At the other end of the scale, we've just taken delivery of 2 quad-core servers running Linux  which are to replace 10 Windows servers. Well, actually, they're each going to be running 5 Windows servers under VMWare... but, y'know.....

topic? what topic?

Sorry.

Mark