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From: "Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@×××××.es>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:37:16
Message-Id: defd7dfc00e67f2194b78dd6ef193a7d@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? by Denis
1 On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:08:41 -0400, Denis <denis.che@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >> nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can
3 cause
4 >> a lot
5 >> of problems.
6 >
7 > Alright, I am now running 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel, but I still have
8 > the same issue.
9 >
10 > I think it's a scroll-bar that triggers it. If I drag a scrollbar
11 > down with my mouse and then run it back up, there is a delayed
12 > response (especially in Acrobat Reader), and when I do that in
13 > Mathematica 5.2, that simply crashes X.
14 >
15 > Now I am kind of regretting that I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6... I
16 > was very happy with 1.5 and before. Sigh. May this be a library
17 > issue? Gtk? I received some kind of an error from Gtk, if I recall,
18 > while using acroread, but acroread did not crash...
19
20 Acroread has always been particularly unstable. I know nothing about the
21 Linux version of Mathematica.
22
23 You can always try revdep-rebuild.
24
25 --
26 Jesús Guerrero

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Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>