On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 01:09, Joey Hess wrote: > > Perhaps I should try a proprietary X server, a different X driver > (VESA)? Or install X in a stable chroot. If I can reproduce the problems > in any of those, it would be a hardware or kernel problem, right now my > money is still on the X server.
It's very unlikely related to drivers as they don't deal with the protocol directly. > (FWIW, I can reproduce the problem running X programs such as xterm, > from stable, on another computer with the DISPLAY set back to my laptop.) That would point to the server side then; FWIW, what about the opposite scenario? It does smell like a hardware (or at least kernel, libc, ...) problem to me though. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer