Re: X dies while I'm not looking...

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

"David J. Roundy" wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:52:35PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > Tovar wrote:
> >
> > > More to the point, from /var/log/xdm.log :
> > >
> > >     Fatal server error:
> > >     fbdevUpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (Function not implemented)
> > >
> > >
> > >     When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> > >     the full server output, not just the last messages
> > >
> > >     xdm error (pid 1347): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly:
> > >     1
> > >
> > > You're right about the fix. I wonder if this just occurs with
> > > 'video=ofonly' or it afflicts video cards operating in native mode as
> > > well.
> >
> > Probably the former as the ioctl shouldn't fail in the latter case.
> >
> > I wonder if this still happens with the current XFree86 CVS (or any 4.x
> > version for that matter).
> 
> It still happens on my system (if I run "xset s activate" x dies), which is
> 4.0.2.

Can you try 4.0.99.2 or later? If it still happens there, I'm very interested
in suggestions how it could react more sanely on that ioctl not being
implemented.

I'd also appreciate server output of this happening with 4.x .


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