Re: is XFree4.x stable under debian?
On 01-Jun-2002 Tomasz Cichecki wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to ask you if you experience oops with XFree 4.1.x under
> debian? I with my brother are using both debian woody since some time.
> Actually I've been using this distribution since a year ago. Debian is
> really great and I like it very much but so far I've noticed the
> following inconvenience: the Xs 4.1 crashes:/ from time to time the KDM
> restart its session - loses connetion. There are no messages in logs or
> so. On my machine I'm using rather old video card: riva 128 PCI/4MB and
> my brother is running a Voodoo3 16MB AGP. The problem is exactly the same: X
> server crashes between random periods of time. Sometimes it's 10 min
> sometimes several hours. I've tried to investigate the problem and
> installed the X from sources - but still the problem stays the same
> (anyway on my machine), I even tried the 4.2.0 doesn't help at all.
> Maybe some of you experience the same or by accident know a workaround
>
This really seems to depend on the video card. I have several types of Matrox
cards here and X has NEVER, EVER been unstable. It has always been the
application that took me out of X.
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