On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:11:15PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Michael George wrote:
> > What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have
> > open office running on my right screen and I click "File", the
> > displays will freeze. The system is still running, because I can
> > get in from one of my terminals. I check and X is consuming 100%
> > of one processor. [...]
> >
> > System info:
> > openoffice-bin-2.1.0
> > xorg-x11-7.1
> > xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS="mga", INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
> > mouse")
>
> Hmm, mga. You're probably looking at one of these bugs:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8666
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473
>
> What version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga are you using? Have you
> tried upgrading to the latest, 1.4.6.1?
I tried the upgrade to 1.4.6.1, but the same thing happened. X is the
runaway, for when I kill it, the load drops right off...
It did seem that the 1.4.6.1 video driver sucked up a lot more memory,
though. I think I'll downgrade it, I'm no worse off...
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