Hello. Sorry if this question is a waste of anyone's time, but here goes.
I've endeavored over the past few months to get antialiased fonts working
in XFree86, with little luck. Whenever I enable them, my computer freezes
without warning within an hour or so. I've tried X 4.1.0 and 4.2.0,
nVidia drivers 1.0-2314, 1.0-2802, and 1.0-2880, the latest
stable of FreeType2 as of this writing, and routing fonts through both xfs
and XFree86's internal font handling.
The lockups have the following characteristics:
- All animation onscreen stops. Widgets don't respond to input.
- The cursor is still moveable.
- Alt-SysRq combos work as follows:
- K freezes the box completely. Power-cycle with the BRS is
needed.
- S-U-B works to reboot.
- R has no effect.
- All others are nonfunctional.
- Attempts to switch to console fail.
- Any music I have playing in the background continues to play.
- Not sure whether I can Telnet in or not; don't own any other boxen.
I've found that the lockups tend to occur when large quantities of type
are being rendered to the screen (loading Web pages in an AA-capable
browser, etc.) or when using antialiased fonts in an XTerm. No error
messages are evident in /var/log/XFree86.0.log (even with X being invoked
with -logverbose 9 -verbose 9) or /var/log/messages. I haven't bothered
to fiddle with syslog to have it log more trivial messages, because I
don't think it'd make much of a difference.
Any help or requests for further testing are welcome. Thank you in
advance for your time.
-- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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