problem with X11 ?

[pietrov]

Hi,

I'm running RHEL4 under VMWARE. For some reasons the machine doesn't properly work anymore as as soon as I close a a graphical window (even Gedit) it hangs and only thing I can do is a reboot.

Any idea/solution ?

Thanks,

Pietro

[devils casper]

Post the output of these commands :

su -
/sbin/lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
free

[pietrov]

[root@shrek2 pietrov]# /sbin/lspci | grep -i vga
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapt er
[root@shrek2 pietrov]# /sbin/lspci | grep -i vga
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter
[root@shrek2 pietrov]# grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Driver "kbd"
Driver "vmmouse"
Driver "vmware"
# doing. It will override the driver's preferences which can
[root@shrek2 pietrov]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1035792 231880 803912 0 10044 124548
-/+ buffers/cache: 97288 938504
Swap: 524280 0 524280