Re: frozen Xfree4.2

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Johan CARDON wrote:

> Le Jeudi 11 Avril 2002 20:14, vous avez écrit :
> > some other people had this random lockup/crash, it turned out
> > to be not enough memory. since qnx6 doesn't really use swap,
> > you have to have enough physical memory.
> >
> Thanks for your response Frank but I hope that 512M of memory is enough.

that should be enough. I have 128M on my machine (S3 Salvage), never
had a problem. my apps may not as memory hungry, but 512M should
definitely be enough.

>
> I have a C&T 69000 chips for my video and I found on Xfree86.org that they
> have been rewritten drivers for this chips and they must be considered in
> work in progress. They encourage to use 3.3.6 version if we want stability.
> (unfortunately Xfree3.3.6 doesn't start on my machine).

Armin had 3.3.6 version up a while ago, but that only supports the
serial mouse. He may be able to help you more on that.

>
> However they give some advice :
> advice                  my result
> Disable Accel   -->     no effect
> Disable MMIO    -->     Xserver doesn't start
> reduce clock    -->     (I RTFM to learn how to do that).
>
> Another option is to use Qt3 under Xphoton.
> All the examples compile fine but when I start one of them, all the widget
> drawing are mixed. (two Play button instead of one Play and one Quit in
> Tictactoe example) --> unusable.
> I will try with QT2. (enough for my needs).

Ask [email protected] for the new Xphoton, which is xfree86 4.2 based,
it may work better.

Frank

>
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