Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Mark Knecht <mknecht@××××××××××.com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing?
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:37:26
Message-Id: 4182AA03.7040507@controlnet.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing? by Luke-Jr
1 Luke-Jr wrote:
2 > On Friday 29 October 2004 7:48 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >
4 >>A reboot command from here will get the machine back and happy. I
5 >>haven't figured out what to kill exactly to just get back to a console.
6 >>The bash session starte at 6:26AM is the one I ran fluxbox from. Killing
7 >>it does no good. It seems that all the X processes are gone...
8 >
9 >
10 > I've noticed that certain drivers (radeon) don't tolerate unclean closes much
11 > and have a similar behavior... If this is your issue, you can workaround the
12 > problem by just fixing whatever it is in X that is b0rking.
13
14 It is a Radeon, but Ive run the machine with nothing but Gentoo since I
15 bought it last February and never had this prolem until xorg-x11-6.8.
16
17 Who knows? Not a huge problem, and I would tend to agree with at least
18 part of what you've observed. I have yet to crash when I use the exit in
19 the fluxbox menu.
20
21 thanks,
22 Mark
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