On 12 Aug 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > Is anybody doing anything about our X? It still crashes routinely. > xdm is largely unusable. When started with startx, it can still crash > after awhile and sometimes bring the system down with it. > > This has forced us to switch to RedHat on our Sparc machines. > Needless to say, I am very disappointed with that decision, but it is > correct -- our faculty do not want their machines to hang with a > frequency greater than you find on Microsoft. > > Why does X under RedHat-Sparc work flawlessly while X under > Debian-Sparc barely works at all? Is somebody going to do something > about it? Please?
We're going to need more of a bug report than that, I'm afraid. X works fine for me (SS2/2.0.35/up-to-date slink). It also, I believe, works well for the X maintainer, Anders. What systems were you using? Kernel version? Libc version? Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
