Re: [gentoo-dev] Serious: XFree halts system with some C++ codes running (in particular, Diffpack) on SMP kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r7

[Denis Shcherbakov]

Hello,

So I tried the options suggested previously.  Those were to rock the video
card in its slot to make sure it's well-connected and dust-free and to set
"NoRenderAccel" "true" in the device options of XF86Config.  With these
options set, the system was still getting broken from executing the code.
However, it seems to have been resolved temporarily by switching off the
use of X libraries and of X-Motif libraries by the code.  Diffpack is a
comprehensive package for solving differential equations numerically, and
graphical interface can be written to it.  But since our code was simply
text-based, the use of these libraries was not necessary.  Diffpack comes
with outdated versions of Tcl/tk and some of their utilities, and so quite
possibly they are not meant to be used with new versions of XFree86.

I have not had any other problems with Motif or Tcl/Tk on my system except
for this package.

Hardware conflict is probably what happens here.  Not sure why.  Maybe
some broken dependencies within that software are triggering something in
that regard.

Thank you all for your help with this issue!  It's very much appreciated.

Denis





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