Martin Josefsson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Shane Shrybman wrote:
>
> > I tried classzone18 with pre7-3 and got similar results. Big performance
> > improvements but, I also experience lockups. No oops or messages were
> > recorded. I am unable to pin it down to a particular event, moving
> > windows around in X seems to lock the machine. I am using XFree4.0 if it
> > matters.
>
> Hmm... you don't happen to use a Matrox Mystique?
I do use a Matrox Mystique PCI!
> I've been getting these lockups with all XFree 3.9.x and XFree 4.0 with
> any kernel (tested with a few 2.2 and 2.3).
Seems to be stable on 2.2.15pre19. I only get hangs when using bttv
driver.
>
> It also occurs when moving windows around or scrolling in netscape.
>
> But I don't get complete lockups, it's only X that hangs, everything else
> runs just fine.
Sometimes it is just X thats hung and I am able to recover sometimes the
whole
box is hung and I have to reset. May be more than one problem.
> This may be what I thought from the beginning, a bug in XFree.
> But maybe it's a bug in kernel thats showing up more clearly now.
>
> /Martin
Yes, I agree this could be true. I am going back to XFree 3.3.6 now
to check it out.
Shane
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