Re: Crashing X servers

[Georg Wittig <Georg Wittig gmd de>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 08:06:21PM -0500, Mark Hansel wrote:


> How many people are having X86_SVGA crash when "several" (10-15 somewhere) 
> windows are open, even with only 8 bit modes on? This is a reproducible on
> my LX / 128MB. The crash kills everything.  The keyboard is dead, mouse
> registers nothing, telnet, even ping from another machine get no
> response. 


There's a patch out there which fixes it for me:
ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/pub/XFree86/XFree86-3.3-alpha3-sockets.patch
(Thanks to Matti Aarnio pointing this URL out to me) I applied this
patch to the XFree86-3.3.2.3 sources.

I run it since a month now. However, in the meantime I had 2 crashes
of the xserver when I had approx. 35-40 windows open. The crash
doesn't occur when opening a new window, but when working with one of
the windows. Don't know if this is an xserver problem or a kernel
problem (I'm running stock RH5.0 kernel - 2.0.30 I think).

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