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    SubjectRe: strange problem in X
    I have heard that several people are having X crashing /
    freezing problems, and the only similarities so far seem to be
    SMP (I have not heard about any UP's having problems yet) and
    XFree86. There seems to be different window managers, different
    apps running, different configurations, and different
    distributions, and different kernels. The only similarities so
    far seem to be X.

    I am assuming that everyone who has had X crash is running XFree
    3.3.3.1 (is this correct)

    My guess is that something is probably wrong in X itself or in
    the kernel i/o that is afecting X but am guessing at this point?

    I have in the past (with 2.0 kernels) had io failed requests and
    X crashes, but that stopped with 2.2.

    In 2.2 my mouse sometimes stops working correctly. IE, it moves
    but the mouse clicks do not do anything, or it moves but not in
    the direction that I want it to (suddenly it can only go up and
    down or something?), or the mouse and keyboard do not have any
    effect on X. (except control-alt-backspace and that does not
    always work)

    So now I have a few questions:

    1) is anyone who is running a uniprocessor machine having
    problems with X 3.3.3.1 and the 2.2 kernels that is causeing
    them to either reboot or force an X shutdown as described above?
    ( ie is this an SMP problem exclusively or is it occuring on UP
    machines as well)

    2) if anyone has experienced this have they found a fix?

    3) how does one tell if this is kernel related or X
    related?

    4) with 2.2.x what compilers can be safely recommended ? I
    remember that in 2.0 there were problems with gcc 2.8.1 that
    XFree86.org recommended not using that one as it caused io
    problems, could egcs be having a similar effect? (ie is anyone
    who is NOT using egcs with 2.2 having this problem?)

    my machine is:
    DUAL P-233MMX
    128 Meg RAM
    Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 4Meg video card (PCI)
    Linux Kernel 2.2.10
    XFree86 3.3.3.1
    egcs 1.0.x
    glibc2.1
    RH6.0

    until today I thought that I was the only one having this
    problem but it seem that there are more of you out there.

    thanks .. Joe

    --- Matthew Hixson <hixson@frozenwave.com> wrote:
    > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Joe wrote:
    >
    > >I have not noticed any apps running wild thou. Could there be
    > >problems with ppp that could cause X to hang?
    >
    > The machine that hung did not have PPP compiled into its
    > kernel, nor do I use
    > it as a module. So that can't be causing both of our
    > problems.
    > -M@
    >
    > --
    > Matthew Hixson - CIO "Noone has ever tried anything like this
    > before."
    > FroZenWave Communications "That's why its going to work."
    > http://www.frozenwave.com -- Trinity and Neo
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