Re: New PPC X server alpha (brown paper bag update)
Giorgio Signori wrote:
>
> Ciao Michel Dänzer, il 18-Feb-00 mi scrivi:
>
> MD> I've taken the chance and improved the glint (even more endianness and
> MD> accel improvements) and fbdev (now checks if monitor can display modes
> MD> ;) drivers.
>
> Hello, I tried it, and is quite faster :-)
> Unfortunately, it locks a lot, don't know if it's my fault or not.
> First, if I turn on glint, X simply won't start.
> But more often, the server shhuts down. For example, if I do ctrl-alt-+ to
> switch resolution, it hangs. Also, if I run Afterstep, as I open the menu,
> it hangs. More, if I strat Gnome, it hangs a few seconds after that all the
> windows appear.
> But the strange thing is that if I start X with xinit and in the console I
> start gnome with gnome-session, gnome starts with no problem.
> Here is the log of when the driver crashes using afterstep.
> Regards!
What I've noticed is that the server often crashes when run as root. Try
running it as a normal user.
Michel
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