Re: Old thinkpad and X11, 6.1.2 update

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

On 11/12/13 10:01, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:47:06AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > I can even do the following, most of the time it works
> >
> > 1) start with card plugged in, computer boots, network configured, start
> > X, black screen, it hangs... pull out the PCMCIA card, it will recover
> > and display a working X
> What happens if you start X without it listening on the network:
>
> startx -- -nolisten tcp
>
> that should disable X listening on a network interface.  This means you
> won't be able to remote display clients to the server but it may allow
> you to start an X server and use it locally.
Good suggestion. I tried that, no help. It still waits with a black 
screen,if I pull out the net-card, X appears, as before.

I also noticed that if I pass a wrong parameter (I got the dashes wrong 
at my first attempt) startx / X do hang, then I pull out the network 
card, it unhangs and just quits and spits out the message that the 
command option was invalid. Somehow strange.

Life without X11 is boring :) The only thing which I could still try is 
to leave the network card in, but remove/rename the ifconfig.xx0 file.

Riccardo