On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:21:13PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> With fvwm-2.4.1 and above, I've been experiencing really weird X
> crashes. fvwm works fine, until I switch virtual consoles away from X
> and back again. When using any window manager but fvwm-2.4.x, nothing
> bad happens; but if fvwm-2.4.x is running in the X session[1], every X
> client that was being managed by fvwm at the time of the switch freezes
> solid. fvwm thinks it's still there (so you can manipulate the --- now
> forever unrepainted --- windows), and the process is still there, but
> it's blocked in select() forevermore.
>
> I'm using XFree86-4.1.0 (from CVS at XFree86) on an i586-pc-linux-gnu
> box with glibc-2.2.4 and the mga driver.
I had similar problems with XFree 4.0.x and the mga driver (G200).
XFree sometimes just exited or froze when switching between VC and
X - or worse: between two X servers. But now that you mention it:
the problem seems to have gone away with my new machine
(GeForce2), but maybe I didn't test this enough yet. This never
happened with XFree 3.3.x. I really don't know what to do about
that.
> I'm not sure if this is really a fvwm bug, but fvwm is implicated
> (somehow); if it's not a fvwm bug it's an XFree86 bug triggered by
> fvwm-2.4.x. To be honest, I'm not even sure where to start searching for
> the bug; nothing's looping and eating CPU or I could hit it with gprof,
> nothing dumps core, and I'd rather eat my own intestines than try to
> debug a running X server. Everything just, well, stops working.
>
> (This probably started happening somewhere in the 2.3.x range, but I
> jumped straight from 2.2.5 to 2.4.1. It still happens with 2.4.3.)
>
>
> I'm stumped. Anyone else got any clues?
You could try using the svga driver instead. Don't ask me how you
do this with XFree 4, though.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 04:34:50 GMT