Re: frozen Xfree4.2

Armin Steinhoff <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:23:08 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.qnx.openqnx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 11:05 12.04.02 -0500, Frank Liu wrote:


>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.

I would buy a compatible video card  ... it takes less time and solves the 
trouble immediately  :)

I'm using a ATI Rage 128 on a 196MB machine ... QT2 and QT3 are working fine.

Armin