On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:36:24 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > 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.
He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
