On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:47:30PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Dave Swegen wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Wilfried Goesgens wrote: > > > > > > > > > Please excuse me, if I'm wrong here with my problems here and tell me > > > > > > were to go. > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > The ati driver maintainer reads that list. > > > > > > > well, I didn't receive any response from that. > > > > Now I've Isolated the program that causes the Crash: > > > > It's wmcpu : > > > > wmcpu does some sort of nasty stuff and reliably crashes X on all my > > machines. And it is not an ATI driver thing - the tdfx driver had > > problems with it too. Avoid like the plague. > > > > Crashes X or crashes your machine? I don't see anything unusual > in the code other than it uses the shape extension. It is reading > proc files however so maybe it's a linux kernel bug if it's crashing > your machine. The application:
Crashes X. If I remember correctly my laptop (which has an ATI mobility-1) seemed OK until I upgraded to 4.1.0. Looking at http://bugs.debian.org/wmcpu there are about three bugs that are probably caused by the same thing. Restarting X works fine. Quite bizarre. Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
