Evan Williams wrote: > > I have recently encountered an error using XMLMind Editor - Version > 2.3p1 - on Windows XP. > > The machine was idle for a few minutes (with an XmlMind Editor session > open), and then the machine eencounted a system error, and the display > reverted to a 640 by 480 size, with low color depth. > > A system event was logged: > > The driver ialmdnt5 for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in > an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device > itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. > Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver upd > > The system then needed to be rebooted. > > This has occured on a colleagues machine as well - both are running > Windows XP. I have been running the editor fine under Windows 2000 > though. > > My colleagues machine was using the packaged Java support (JRE > 1.4.1_02) > > Any help would be greatly appreciated,
This problem is known to be caused by a badly written ATI video driver. Therefore it may happen on some machines and not on others depending on the video hardware/video driver the machine has. For example, we cannot reproduce this problem here (on Windows XP or on Windows 2000) because we do not have the faulty video hardware/video driver. Upgrading your video driver is probably the first thing to do (if you can do it, otherwise try next step). This problem was supposed to have a workaround in Java 1.4.1_02 (that's why we bundle this version). If you have Java 1.4 runtimes on your machine other that the one bundled with XXE, uninstall them, uninstall XXE, and then reinstall XXE (if you can do all this, otherwise try next step). If problem has not disappeared after this: [1] Unzip attached laxpatch.zip in <XXE_install_dir> (example C:\Program Files\XMLmind_XML_Editor). This will overwrite XMLmind_XML_Editor.lax and xxe.bat by versions of these files having this additional command line flag: -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true which tells Java not to use DirectX for rendering. [2] Try to start XXE as usual, using Start menu. [3] If this does not work (may be because I failed to properly patch XMLmind_XML_Editor.lax), try to start XXE using xxe.bat (for example, by double-clicking on xxe.bat). If problem has not disappeared after this and you are still motivated to solve it, completely uninstall Java 1.4.1_02, uninstall XXE and then install Java 1.4.2 Beta (downloaded from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html) and xxe-std-23p1-setup-nojvm.exe (downloaded from http://www.xmlmind.net/xmleditor/_download/xxe-std-23p1-setup-nojvm.exe). If you manage to solve this problem, please tell us how you did it. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: laxpatch.zip Type: application/x-zip-compressed Size: 2235 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20030623/c03484ae/attachment.bin
