Re: [Xpert]Re: XFree 4.1-6 crashes on Notebook with ati Grafik card
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:47:30PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Dave Swegen wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Wilfried Goesgens wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > Please excuse me, if I'm wrong here with my problems here and tell me
> > > > > > were to go.
> > >
> > > > > Xpert@XFree86.Org
> > >
> > > > > The ati driver maintainer reads that list.
> > >
> > > > well, I didn't receive any response from that.
> > > > Now I've Isolated the program that causes the Crash:
> > > > It's wmcpu :
> >
> > wmcpu does some sort of nasty stuff and reliably crashes X on all my
> > machines. And it is not an ATI driver thing - the tdfx driver had
> > problems with it too. Avoid like the plague.
> >
>
> Crashes X or crashes your machine? I don't see anything unusual
> in the code other than it uses the shape extension. It is reading
> proc files however so maybe it's a linux kernel bug if it's crashing
> your machine. The application:
Crashes X. If I remember correctly my laptop (which has an ATI
mobility-1) seemed OK until I upgraded to 4.1.0. Looking at
http://bugs.debian.org/wmcpu there are about three bugs that are probably
caused by the same thing. Restarting X works fine.
Quite bizarre.
Cheers
Dave
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