Re: A very strange X problem
from the description of the problem I am not sure if this is related
but it might be so here it goes:
I have the same card (3dfx voodoo 3, PCI) and the X server used to
crash quite often when I moved around large windows (whole windows where
moved, not just frames, opaque moving). Daryll said there is a HW bug
related to bitmap accelarating and that they were trying to fix it (some
kind of workaround). That was long time ago when the 3dfx wasn't even
included in main X distro.
the crash was a real nasty one - everything froze, I couldn't even log
in on the serial console (which was atari portfolio! :-)
since I do not have the opaque move set up right now I am not sure if
the current server has the same problem. 3dfx used to have news server
dedicated to voodoo cards and Daryll (not sure if he's still working on
voodoo X server) used to answer question quite frequently so you might
want to try to ask there. it was extremely valuable resource.
erik
Paul Barton wrote:
>
> I have been using the 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP for a long time without problems. This new problem just started happening to me on Saturday.
>
> Oh, and I'm running cvs enlightenment on unstable Debian.
>
> --Paul
>
> * Joel St?bis (joel.stabis@home.se) wrote:
> > I forgot to mention that in my post that I can move the mouse around just like
> > you say. I have also thougth of it being a hardware-problem. Just out of
> > curiosity, what gfx-card do you have? I have a 3dfx voodoo3 2000 agp, maybe
> > there is some problem with the tdfx-driver.
> >
> > * Paul Barton (paul@moonkhan.org) wrote:
> > > Joel, I have just recently been getting the same problem. First I thought it was my processors, then I thought it was XF4, then I thought it was enlightenment. It just locks my screen with everything frozen except the mouse, which moves around fine. Maybe this isn't a hardware problem like I initially thought :)
> > >
> > > --Paul
> > >
> > > * Joel St?bis (joel.stabis@home.se) wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > I have a very stange problem with xf 4.0.x. Now and then X seems to crash in
> > > > some strange way. The screen stops updating, the keyboard doesn't work, the
> > > > only thing I can do is to hit the power-button and reboot.
> > > >
> > > > This has happend with all versions of xf 4.0.x, under both redhat 6.2/7.0,
> > > > slackware 7.1 and debian (woody).
> > > >
> > > > It always happend when draging the mouse around holding one button pressed
> > > > down, in all types of programs (netscape, gqview, the windowmanager etc).
> > > >
> > > > I first thought that it was a problem with the windowmanager I user
> > > > (enlightenment), but it also happends in windowmaker and fvwm2.
> > > >
> > > > I have no clue why this is happening, I hope someone out there has.
> > > >
> > > > / Joel
> > > >
> > > >
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