Mark Vojkovich wrote: >On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, F. Heitkamp wrote: > >>When I use my PC (running Linux) as an X terminal, to log into the Mac, >>I am able to >>work for hours with no crashes. Doesn't this raise suspicion that the >>problem is in the >>nv driver? >> > > No. Like I said, I'd be more suspicious of the font render or >font server. I don't see that there's anything significantly >different between the x86 and PPC versions of the "nv" driver. >There's just some register changes programming big endian >primitives rather than little endian ones, and those obviously >work or it wouldn't be rendering. I never saw any crashes, >but I wasn't using a font server and didn't have the freetype >module installed. > > You said it crashed. Do you mean it segfaulted? Do you have >a stack trace? > X just stops. The image of the session remains in the framebuffer but no interaction can take place. Trying to kill X using the ps command (from a remote terminal) is not able to remove X or the image from the screen. The only way to get the console back is to reboot. I vaguely remember looking at the log files, and seeing nothing out of the ordinary.
I would be glad to provide more information, if I could (suggestions welcome). Fred _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
