As you may well know for a long time X got stuck occasionally for me on my
Mandrake system (starting at about 8.1 and progressing through 8.2 and
9.0). A couple of weeks ago, I cancelled the OpenGL hardware Accelaration
(I used the proprietary nVidia drivers) and since then things have been
working flawlessly. Not a single time it got stuck. With KDE 3.0.x or 3.1
RC 5, IceWM, GNOME or whatever.
I encountered a similar situation in my Technion station which has an ATI
Mach 128 card. I think it has a kernel driver accelartor that is not
proprietary. The machines itself are still alive. I can still here the
last mp3 I played and at the Technion was able to login into the machine
using ssh. Maybe the kernel frame buffer accelaration code is buggy.
Of course now TuxRacer and other 3-D intensetive games are much slower.
Unusable even. But at least Frozen Bubble works nicely.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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