Re: Gtk1.2 colo_selection widget crashes X on planar amifb fbdev X server
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 03:12:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > i have been noticing that the color_selection widget from gtk1.2 (but also
> > > gtk1.1) is crashing my X server (XF68_FBDEV 3.3.3.1, on top of amifb).
> > >
> > > I don't know if this is an X server bug, a bug in gtk1.2, not handling well
> > > planar displays, or even a egcs bug when building gtk or the X server ...
> >
> > If the X server crahses its an X server bug. X11 is required to send you an
> > error for anything stupid you tell it to do
> >
>
> Signal 11 error ?
>
> i guess it is a generalized problem, since gnome-panel crashes also, and
> strangely, it even crahses the server when i relaunch it a second time, after
> few seconds ... :(
>
> Kars de Jong tells me it is a afb planar bug triggered by shared memory
> extension.
>
> Who should i be in contact with to solve this, or to help me solve it myself ?
Euh... me. But the last time I looked at the afb code was in 1995. And as
usual, I don't have time. Perhaps you can contact the NetBSD-Amiga guys? They
wrote the afb code in the first place.
Greetings,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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