I downloaded RedHat's new 7.3 release and installed clean on my desktop. XFce, Galeon, sylpheed-claws, Xchat and Pan all worked as expected.
I was doing some file system exploring with Xftree when X locked up. The mouse pointer would move normally, but no response from the keyboard and no window focus. I restarted the box and repeated the sequence using Xftree. Sure enough it locked again and again. Thankfully, ext3 recovered each time. I started Gnome and found that I could repeat the problem. KDE also did the same thing. My video card is an ATI Rage 128 R with 32M of memory. It has never given me a problem with earlier versions of X. Normally, I set the color depth to 16-bit, and that was where I had it set during the lock-ups. The problem disappears when I re-set the color depth to 24-bit! Thought I would share that with the group. -- Neal Registered Linux User #159445 running RedHat 7.3, kernel 2.4.18/ext3 and XFce, Athlon800 Desktop RedHat 7.2, kernel 2.4.9/ext3 and XFce, Toshiba Laptop 2140XCDS
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