Re: frozen Xfree4.2

Le Vendredi 12 Avril 2002 18:05, Frank Liu a écrit :
> 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
>
> > Thanks.

For information about my test :
XFREE42
- I tried with another card (ATI 3D rage IIc with 4096 Kbytes of memory) --> 
same problem so I think it's not a hard problem. 
- I tried to reduce resolution and depth --> idem

XFREE336
- I have a PS/2 mouse so I will try with it with a serial mouse.

And I go read /opt/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.chips now

Thanks,
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