Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:50:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joe <> | Subject | Re: strange problem in X |
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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 > > - > Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at > http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ > To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to > majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > >
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