Trying a different driver was going to be my next suggestion.
Actually, I had a problem with my Ubuntu 11.04 install (Unity) tonight. After
an update and reboot the CPU usage went up to 100% and stayed there. By
looking at top I could see that it was xorg that was chomping on the CPU. I
have
Just an idea:
Check the CPU temperatures. Some people have reported problems with ACPI fan
control to point that it causes CPU overheating. The internal temperature
sensor then reduces the clock speed to prevent damage. I've never heard of it
causing this much trouble however - mostly lag wh
- Forwarded Message -
From: Chris Robinson
To: Matthieu Herrb
Sent: Sunday, 21 August 2011 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: "sticky" xkb options ?
Hi, Try:
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “DontZap” “yes”
EndSection
in xorg.conf
I just verified this with Slackwa
There's this message on the archlinux bug site that seems to be similar:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25323
See if there's anything there that might help.
Chris
From: Sapfeer
To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org
Sent: Wednesday, 17 August 2011 2:28 PM
Subject:
Solved!
I ditched Kde and went with Xfce. Whatever was causing the null pointer
problem when starting Kde either doesn't exist under Xfce, or Xfce doesn't care
and is handling the situation gracefully.
Thanks,
Chris
From: Russell Whitaker
that might hopefully solve the problem, or put in a bug
report to Slackware if it does not.
Thanks
Chris
- Original Message -
From: Russell Whitaker
To: Chris Robinson
Cc: "xorg@lists.freedesktop.org"
Sent: Saturday, 13 August 2011 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: X server crash
hould work before
introducing any breakage. :-)
Thanks,
Chris
- Original Message -
From: "cour...@web.de"
To: Chris Robinson ; "xorg@lists.freedesktop.org"
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, 13 August 2011 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: X server crashing
have you freshly compiled gcc?
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help as I haven't got much hair left.
Background:
I've installed Slackware 13.37 on a spare PC (Celeron 2.8GHz, 1Gb RAM, ATI Rage
128 video card) and everything went well after a moderately steep learning
curve. I could start kde and use it. However, I'm running thi
