[plug] X freezes,

[Rob Dunne]

Christian writes:
 > 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.
yes --  that is it
 
 > > > 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?
yes --  3Dlabs Permedia2 (generic)

 > > 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?  :)

it is a leased machine -- I really cant change anything

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						rob\

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