Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:11:47 -0600 | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux | From | "" <> |
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From: "Etienne Lorrain" <lorrain@fb.sony.de>
Gerhard Mack wrote: > Most of the lockups over here have been X -> text mode -> X. > Sooner or later this will go down HARD, and it's done that on 3 > diffent video cards.
And these video cards pass without any problems test like "x11perf --all" ? No problem overloading, but staying in, X ? (i.e. RAM *really* OK ?)
Let me add a datapoint or two: Over two systems, 4 video cards, X reliably dies on me if I'm switching between text and X. It seems to happen if X tries to draw anything while I'm in a text mode. The cards have been: a cirrus 5434 (?), a Trident (don't remember what chip), a S3 Virge, and a ATI Graphics Ultra Pro. *If* I don't switch, I'm fine. I've had multiple Netscape windows, emacs, xv, and a povray session open at the same time on a 32 meg P166. Ran fine, albeit unusably slowly till the povray finished. I was ~80M into swap...... I have only occasionally had X lock up my system on me--but when it has, nothing short of a reboot would fix it. If KGI+libggi will fix this, I'm all for it.
Shalon Wood
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