On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> I had similar problems with XFree 4.0.x and the mga driver (G200).
I have a G200, so this seems it could be common.
Nix, what kind of card do you have?
I don't know if this is related, but in one of our departments the
standard setup uses fvwm2 2.0.46 on Solaris, and sometimes when logging
out (only on SunRay terminals) the X-server hangs (leaving a gray screen).
"Gray screen of death (GSOD)"... *lol*)
> XFree sometimes just exited or froze when switching between VC and
> X - or worse: between two X servers. But now that you mention it:
> the problem seems to have gone away with my new machine
> (GeForce2), but maybe I didn't test this enough yet. This never
> happened with XFree 3.3.x. I really don't know what to do about
> that.
>
> > I'm not sure if this is really a fvwm bug, but fvwm is implicated
> > (somehow); if it's not a fvwm bug it's an XFree86 bug triggered by
> > fvwm-2.4.x. To be honest, I'm not even sure where to start searching for
> > the bug; nothing's looping and eating CPU or I could hit it with gprof,
> > nothing dumps core, and I'd rather eat my own intestines than try to
> > debug a running X server. Everything just, well, stops working.
> >
> > (This probably started happening somewhere in the 2.3.x range, but I
> > jumped straight from 2.2.5 to 2.4.1. It still happens with 2.4.3.)
> >
> >
> > I'm stumped. Anyone else got any clues?
>
> You could try using the svga driver instead. Don't ask me how you
> do this with XFree 4, though.
>
> Bye
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>
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Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:58:48 GMT