On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:46:56AM -0800, Dominik Behr wrote: > Problems I encountered (all known bugs AFAIK): > - update-menus crashes, recompiling it with -static helped c++ exceptional handling problem in gcc 2.95 - Fixed in 3.0/3.1 IIRC. > - sometimes gnome-session or gnome-panel crashes (but I dont feel like > recompiling gnome) > - most of pixmaps are corrupted in gnome, gtk apps and also in icewm Shared memory seems to be broken - Guido and me were going to debug this but didnt get around doing it last time. I guess its some cache stuff going on. > - palette is not restored properly when leaving X (both in X that comes > with debian (4.1.something ?) and 4.2 I compiled from source This is a bug in the XFree server although it only happens on some graphics boards. > XFree86 contains compiled in drivers for all PC graphics cards and that > adds lots of bloat. Just by removing them (and input drivers except > mouse) I slimmed XFree86 from 10 to 6 MB. Thats 4MB more for > applications (and once I had computer with 64KB of memory)! They should only be on Disk not in memory - And BTW there are Mips machines out there which have PCI slots and thus may use all those drivers. > I suppose more stuff can be disabled to make it even smaller. Nope .. We need that stuff .. > I am now converting sgi hardware docs from postscript to PDF and I will > read them and then try to help. > There are couple of ex-SGI guys at my workplace, I'll track them and > I'll extract their brain contents somehow (it reminds me of Starship > Troopers). More important - I2 Framebuffer ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Nine nineth on september the 9th Welcome to the new billenium
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