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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:08:02
Message-Id: i0e1qo$u0j$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability by Florian Philipp
1 On 06/28/2010 09:47 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
2
3 > 2. Once the XServer runs, it is extremely unstable. It gets killed and
4 > restarted by XDM every few minutes...
5
6 I stopped using display managers years ago, mostly because they make life
7 so difficult when X is being flakey. My advice is to avoid xdm and use
8 startx until you figure out what's causing the crashes. This makes the
9 logs easier to figure out.