On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 05:06, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 17:34, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > You may be interested in this thread: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200309/msg00109.html > > Unfortunately, clients leaking resources wouldn't explain why the same > set of clients exhibits this problem under xfree86 4.3 but not in 4.2... > would it?
Maybe not, but there's always many factors to consider; the apps could only leak with code using functionality only available in 4.3, the leaks could be in the new X libraries, if you have changed them, ... > I've been trying to track this problem down for a long time, with no > luck. Since the only other people having it that I can find are also > running debian, I was interested in an easy way to install X minus all > the patches we use, but was unable to build debs of it. (I don't > currently have a system where I can safely install something as big as X > from upstream without using a package manager... just a matter of > reliability). If someone can suggest a clean way of installing X 4.3.0 > without any patches, and still getting me a 99.9% reliable way of > reverting to debian packages, I'm more than willing to test this theory. Install it somewhere in /usr/local (or anywhere out of the way of the package management system, for that matter) and point the server's ModulePath there. You could also try my xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk packages though, which are only minimally patched. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
