Re: X crashes if I'm idle
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 05:56, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> James D Strandboge wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:17, Frank Trenkamp wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Ivan,
> >>
> >>
> >>>X is in VESA mode, as the Thinkpad has unsupported Radeon video.
> >>
> >>Mobility 7500 Radeon? You will most surely need XFree 4.2.x, by now
> >>finally available in in unstable (and testing? dunno). I've been using an
> >> install from binaries from XFree86.org - running fine for months now.
> >>
> >
> > This is definitely true. There are woody debs available that work great
> > too.
>
> xfree86 4.2.1-3 is available on testing, so it looks like the best path
> would be to upgrade to that, and see if the problem remains. I assume
> there are docs on te debian website about upgrading from stable to
> testing, so I'll RTF them.
There are also woody packages of 4.2, if going to testing in it's
entirety is altogether too scary.
Or possibly you could just "apt-get remove xscreensaver", because even
if you can't manage it, that will stop it running.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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