Re: X *STILL* broken?
On 12 Aug 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
> Is anybody doing anything about our X? It still crashes routinely.
> xdm is largely unusable. When started with startx, it can still crash
> after awhile and sometimes bring the system down with it.
>
> This has forced us to switch to RedHat on our Sparc machines.
> Needless to say, I am very disappointed with that decision, but it is
> correct -- our faculty do not want their machines to hang with a
> frequency greater than you find on Microsoft.
>
> Why does X under RedHat-Sparc work flawlessly while X under
> Debian-Sparc barely works at all? Is somebody going to do something
> about it? Please?
We're going to need more of a bug report than that, I'm afraid.
X works fine for me (SS2/2.0.35/up-to-date slink). It also, I believe,
works well for the X maintainer, Anders. What systems were you using?
Kernel version? Libc version?
Jules
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