I have had exactly the same problem on my standalone 486/33MHz at home.
Thought it was due to my old hardware (et4000 based noname card) only able
to run X in 8bpp.
Installed xsvga 3.3.3-3 and tried to run gimp; alas, the system crashed
back to the console exactly as you describe it.
I re-installed xsvga-3.3.2.3 from the SuSE 5.3 distro- and gimp runs fine
with the warnings messages about data loss due to the 8bpp.
Mind you, I am running gimp for fun on such a system :-)
cheers
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A. Brandt
Vanloese DK
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Ralph Clark wrote:
>
> I posted a few weeks ago that since upgrading X via the SuSE XFree86-3.3.3-3
> rpm (libc5 based of course), every time I try to run gimp, xanim or blender, the
> whole X system crashed right back to the console. There were only a couple of
> replies.........................
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