On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 22:35, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, F. Heitkamp wrote: > > > I've pulled the latest CVS xfree86 and compiled it on my G4 533 dual > > Snakebite. I am also using the latest benh kernel. My Mac has the > > GForce 2MX card (I think.). I've gotten X to work with the nv driver but it > > usually crashes after a few minutes. Once it crashed when I tried to send > > a mail message from Mozilla. The last crash happened when I was using > > gnome and had a couple terminals open. I am currious as to what kind of > > luck others are having? BTW I am using debian unstable. > > It worked for me but I haven't done a whole lot of testing on > it. I doubt the crashes are "nv" driver specific. I saw problems > with things like starting multiple servers and switching VTs and > stuff like that. But I believe those are console driver bugs. > If you crashed running Mozilla I'd be more suspicious of the > font renders (freetype, etc...) or the font server, if you are > running one.
I don't have problems with any of this on a PowerBook with a Rage128 M3. The only obvious differences are the X and console drivers, but the latter doesn't affect normal X usage. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
