Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:45:53 -0800 (PST) | | From | Gerhard Mack <> | | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux | |
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:
> : If you need X then you need KGI.
>
> I speak only for myself, but I suspect that all the other people that
> run X daily without it crashing would agree with me.
I don't crash X eiter but I have 2 newbie users on this machine that do it
by changing back and forth from text to X and back it's easy for them to
do and no way to recpver from it except reset from telnet.
>
> I don't need KGI. I'm running X on everything from $5 garage sale Trident
> ISA cards to 8MB #9 PCI cards and in th 4+ years that I've been running
> it on Linux, it's never crashed. Not once.
Load a few apps and change back and forth from X to text, or better yet
load a svgalib app and change from that to X.
> It may well be that there are some (many?) cards out there that make X
> crash systems. But I don't have any, and obviously there are a lot of
> other cards that don't make the system crash. If this were not true,
> X & Linux would be a huge problem.
I've tried several cards, they still do it.
Gerhard
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Gerhard Mack
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As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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