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From: "Hacksaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [XFree86] XFree86 freezes in minutes (was:Trident Blade, "no
screens")
> I was having t
I was having troubles with my S3 Savage IX based laptop freezing with X 4.3.0.
On a whim I set the driver to vesa, since the screen is 800x600 and there's no
3d stuff to speak of. Works great. Give it a try if you haven't.
Wish I knew what was up with the savage driver. It doesn't just hose X, i
Oh. OK, well, maybe I will understand this stuff at some point and it
will seem less like Vulcan magic. Nah, prob'ly not. :-/
Thanks again.
-jmc
David Dawes writes:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:01:39PM -0800, John Chandler wrote:
> >Thanks. I think this is really a bit of a conundrum -- on
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:01:39PM -0800, John Chandler wrote:
>Thanks. I think this is really a bit of a conundrum -- on my RH7.x
>system, Trident is mentioned in the XFree86 config file, and SiS is
Actually, for the old 3.3.x based config file you posted, there
was nothing Trident specific othe
Thanks. I think this is really a bit of a conundrum -- on my RH7.x
system, Trident is mentioned in the XFree86 config file, and SiS is
not. And on my RH9 system, running on the very same hardware, SiS is
mentioned, and Trident is not. Both configurations seem to cause X to
come up on the PCI vid
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:30:54AM -0800, John Chandler wrote:
>I notice a deafening silence on this topic all of a sudden. Have I
>offended my hosts or become tiresome? Please accept my apologies.
>
>Does anyone have an opinion as to whether the freezing I'm seeing is
>an XFree86 issue or someth
When I bring up my newly-installed RH9/XFree86 it locks up within
minutes, usually when I do something innocuous like launch emacs or
click a menu bar so that the app begins to render a drop-down menu.
This happens whether I'm using Gnome or KDE, even at low resolutions.
This is extremely frustrati
I notice a deafening silence on this topic all of a sudden. Have I
offended my hosts or become tiresome? Please accept my apologies.
Does anyone have an opinion as to whether the freezing I'm seeing is
an XFree86 issue or something else? Does RH9 do this a lot?
I'd consider hardware deficien
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