On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 @ 7:01pm (-0500), Gan Uesli Starling wrote:

GUS> Howdy,
GUS>
GUS> Strange problem with startx and mgetty.
GUS>
GUS> I have four window managers: twm, icewm, wmaker,
GUS> startkde. The twm does NOT do it. But other three
GUS> all do.
GUS>
GUS> It started happening right after I installed
GUS> mgetty+sendfax. It only does it on the laptop
GUS> with modem in pcmcia as tty03. It does not do
GUS> it on the Celeron tower with USR modem on tty00.
GUS>
GUS> When I call startx, X will hang with a black
GUS> screen and the white box curser at upper left.
GUS> It will un-hang if I pop the modem out and back
GUS> in from its pcmcia slot.
GUS>
GUS> I get nothing from .xsession-errors.

...check:

/var/log/[xX]*


...I don't suppose you have a serial mouse on a serial port that shares an
IRQ w/ the modem >:} ?

-lava

GUS>
GUS> If I kill mgetty and try all four window managers
GUS> again...then no problem with any of them.
GUS>
GUS> Any clues?
GUS>
GUS> Thanks,
GUS>
GUS> Gan
GUS>
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