Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 @ 7:01pm (-0500), Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
>
>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.
>
>  BAS> ...check:
>
>  BAS> /var/log/[xX]*
>
>
>  BAS> ...I don't suppose you have a serial mouse on a serial port that shares an
>  BAS> IRQ w/ the modem >:} ?
>
GUS> Hm... If I shutdown, swap the modem with the NIC, then no problems 
with startx. Does that confirm
GUS> your IRQ-related suggestion?

>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?
>  
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