On Mon, 18 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Brad Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm running E-BETA-0.13.3, Imlib-1.3, ...
>
> er...
>
> > to my user account in 8 bits, I got one generic Eterm open and it
> > locked again...These were hard freezes, I was not even able to
> > three-finger salute.
>
> Usually, this is an X-server bug, since it takes total control of the
> keyboard. If you can find a way bring up an ssh connection into your
> system (or telnet, or serial terminal, or even remote X), you almost
> always find that everything is still running, and if you kill the X
> server you can usually start another one (unless it's left the card in a
> really wierd state which leaves the display unusable).
This makes sense. Once I get my wife's system set back up, I will have an
ethernet connection into my machine. I'll then have another point of entry
into it.
> The only way to get these kinds of bugs fixed involves getting proper
> information back to the folks who wrote the X server and getting them
> to fix their code. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue about how to do
> this (or I'd have reported these kind of bugs a long time ago). I don't
> even know how to go about collecting the proper information to do a
> decent bug report (and I've asked, a number of times over the years, on
> a number of mailing lists).
>
> If you find out how to collect useful information on such bugs, please
> let me know. [Apparently, if you can reliably and portably cause the X
> server to go south, that's good enough, but that's not something I've
> managed to do yet.]
I am, by the way, using the S3 server with the stealth. Any known buggies
with that? I was running 3.3, the upgrade left me at 3.3.1, and I have
3.3.2 ready to install...Should I go to it? The stealth is an older card,
so I would think they got the bugs worked out, but you never know...
Thanks,
--Brad
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