Bug#423775: xserver-xorg-core: Still experiencing crashes, will try Sid's 1.4 version.

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 07:02:16AM +0200, Brice Goglin a écrit :
>   
>> Charles Plessy wrote:
>>     
>>> I hope that the upgrade will fix the problem, it just seems too
>>> complicated to handle.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Did you have a chance to upgrade?
>>     
>
> Yes, I now have X 1:7.3+10 and the ATI driver 1:6.8.0-1. I still
> experience some unpredicatble crashes. A few times it happened when I
> ran a program that tried to use more memory than the available RAM. So
> maybe despite the fact that I do not encounter crashes with OSX, it may
> be a hardware problem after all. I ran the memtester program, and it
> never stopped (It sometimes paused, however).
>
> Sometimes I have many crashes a day, sometimes not. Importantly, I never
> switch the computer off in week days. Maybe it crashes until some kind
> of bad ram gets in an area that for whatever reason is not allocated
> until the next reboot; that could explain why sometimes I have no
> problem for more than a week?
>
> Shall I try Sid's packages ?
>   

The ati driver in sid is probably better than the one in testing, the
server update is about security.

Brice