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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:11:15PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: |
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> Michael George wrote: |
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> > What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have |
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> > open office running on my right screen and I click "File", the |
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> > displays will freeze. The system is still running, because I can |
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> > get in from one of my terminals. I check and X is consuming 100% |
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> > of one processor. [...] |
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> > |
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> > System info: |
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> > openoffice-bin-2.1.0 |
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> > xorg-x11-7.1 |
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> > xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS="mga", INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard |
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> > mouse") |
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> Hmm, mga. You're probably looking at one of these bugs: |
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> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8666 |
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> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473 |
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> |
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> What version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga are you using? Have you |
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> tried upgrading to the latest, 1.4.6.1? |
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I tried the upgrade to 1.4.6.1, but the same thing happened. X is the |
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runaway, for when I kill it, the load drops right off... |
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It did seem that the 1.4.6.1 video driver sucked up a lot more memory, |
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though. I think I'll downgrade it, I'm no worse off... |
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-M |
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There are 10 kinds of people in this world: |
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Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. |
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