A bit more info, Re: [ale] Limping laptop, locking X11

[Jeff Hubbs]

John - is this laptop kind of long in the tooth?

Reason I ask, I've recently been beating my brains out on a Pentium/60
with Cirrus Logic onboard video and all X that I tried, save that which
came with the quite old SuSE 7.0 Professional, came out quite wrong,
with screens that marginally worked but were full of green crosshatching
no matter what resolution I picked in my config file.  If this thing is
pretty old, it makes me wonder if you should back down to xfree 3,3.*.

- Jeff

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:22, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, John Mills wrote:
> 
> > When I start any significant activity (such as moving windows around), the 
> > li'l #$%^!! locks up hard: no keyboard, no reset, nada. I get to cycle 
> > power to see life again.
> 
> The problem occurs with fvwm2, gnome, and even with 'twm', so I suspect it 
> is an XFree86 problem. Specs on the laptop claim it has a CT
> 
> I thought I had applied all known updates to XFree86-4.2.1, but I'm 
> reloading all basic and updated 7.3 'XFree*.rpm's to make sure.
> 
> I can bring on the lockup by changing focus from one window to another, 
> such as from one xterm to another, or when opening an application that is 
> 'window-hungry' (i.e., source-navigator). If I just open an xterm and use 
> it, or go away to a vtt and use that, I don't see any load buildup.
> 
> I do see a 'hostname lookup failure' when I start X, perhaps because I 
> never defined a domain. I get a similar message when I start Pine from a 
> vtt.
> 
> Can anyone suggest things to try, or ways to get more symptoms?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - John Mills
>    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
> 
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