On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:08:41 -0400, Denis <denis....@gmail.com> wrote: >> nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can cause >> a lot >> of problems. > > Alright, I am now running 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel, but I still have > the same issue. > > I think it's a scroll-bar that triggers it. If I drag a scrollbar > down with my mouse and then run it back up, there is a delayed > response (especially in Acrobat Reader), and when I do that in > Mathematica 5.2, that simply crashes X. > > Now I am kind of regretting that I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6... I > was very happy with 1.5 and before. Sigh. May this be a library > issue? Gtk? I received some kind of an error from Gtk, if I recall, > while using acroread, but acroread did not crash...
Acroread has always been particularly unstable. I know nothing about the Linux version of Mathematica. You can always try revdep-rebuild. -- Jesús Guerrero
