Re: A very strange X problem
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:10:06 -0500
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.
Also I had these problemes, with a cheapo videocard. The one I have
with 4.5 times the price of the other now wasn't really cheapo
(specially down here), and problems are gone. So my guess would be
that X loves video RAM and/or kind of something fast doing the job.
--
Christoph Simon
ciccio@prestonet.com.br
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