[plug] X freezes,

[Christian]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:20:43PM +0800, Leon Blackwell wrote:
> > They don't, do they?  They just occupy the entire screen but the X
> > server is still in charge of the display... right?
> 
> That's right.  xscreensaver just opens a new root window that fills the
> entire screen and allows the actual screensaver you're running access to
> it.  A screensaver shouldn't be able to do anything nasty to your X
> server (although my latest seems to be great at finding a bug in
> XFree4.1.0 that crashes the entire server).

That's what I thought.  The problem I occasionally have (and Rob appears
to also be having) involves the display crashing such that the display
and keyboard driver aren't reset even if you kill the X server.

> > Are they the same mob that make the 3D Labs Permedia 2?  If so, the
> > makers of our video cards are the same.  Possibly using the same X
> > driver and resulting in the same bugs?
> 
> I have found that the Permedia chipsets are all annoyingly buggy, even
> under Windoze.  They tend to break just about everything.

I've been using the machine for 3 years without *any* problems under
Linux at all.  It's only in the last 6 months or so that there has been
any unreliability which strongly points to software being the cause of
the problem.

> Might I suggest getting a new 3D card?  :)

Sure if you are offering. :P 

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