--On Mon, May 18, 1998 11:40 pm -0400 "Brad Alexander"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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...
I'm having *loadsa* problems with the S3V server at the moment. I have
problems with enlightenment, for sure, but even just using fvwm2, I
sometimes get hard locks when I quit.
I'm going to switch back to SVGA for a bit and see if that helps.
(Unfortunately, SVGA doesn't really work in 24bpp, so I'll shift down to 16)
Jues
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