It just happened to me when I was using a Mozilla window.
All the XTerming in the world doesn't seem to trigger
it at all. My machine is up for days, then I start using
a GUI-intensive app and half an hour later I'm rebooting
the machine. Arg.
Is there an XFree list I should join?
- Scott
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 11:21:11AM -0800, Scott Bronson wrote:
> I'm running 4.0.2 and unstable on my Thinkpad i1452, and I'm pretty
> unhappy.
>
> The major problem:
>
> Often, when I use a Netscape window, my computer hangs. It might be
> while I drag the window, it might be while I click on a text box, ...
> Sometimes it's after 5 minutes of use, sometimes after 5 hours. But
> it always seems to be Netscape-related.
>
> The hang is complete -- no network, ny SysRq, nada. In the 3 years
> I've used 3.3.6, X has been totally stable. Furthermore, my computer
> seems to be stable if I don't run Netscape.
>
> What can I do to pursue this? The laptop has a NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV
> graphics chip.
>
>
> Also, this is no big deal, but perhaps a clue:
>
> In GDM, when I iconify the window, the window disappears and the icon
> appears in the lower-right. But all this garbage appears to the left.
> A whole bunch of icon-width lines scattered across the screen.
> It looks like bad acceleration code -- somebody screwed up the rowbytes
> on the blit.
>
> Thanks for your attention!
>
> - Scott
>
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