Re: X11 crashes
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Loki wrote:
> I'm using Debian kernel 2.2.18 and X11R6 as well
> as FVWM 2.something - and X windows hangs quite
> often, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day (ok, mostly
> not at all, but sometimes a few times in a row).
> The mouse cursor freezes, Ctrl-Alt-Del and
> Ctrl-Alt-BkSp do nothing.
>
> Question: Is this the fault of X, the kernel,
> FVWM, my PS2 mouse, Netscape 4.76, or what?
For me it was caused by sound events being turned on in gnome and
sawfish. Bad sound card config or driver problems caused the WM to hang
when closing windows. All is well after I turned off the sound events.
...RickM...
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