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On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:36:24 Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:08:41 -0400, Denis <denis.che@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can |
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> cause |
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> >> a lot |
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> >> of problems. |
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> > Alright, I am now running 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel, but I still have |
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> > the same issue. |
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> > I think it's a scroll-bar that triggers it. If I drag a scrollbar |
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> > down with my mouse and then run it back up, there is a delayed |
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> > response (especially in Acrobat Reader), and when I do that in |
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> > Mathematica 5.2, that simply crashes X. |
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> > Now I am kind of regretting that I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6... I |
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> > was very happy with 1.5 and before. Sigh. May this be a library |
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> > issue? Gtk? I received some kind of an error from Gtk, if I recall, |
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> > while using acroread, but acroread did not crash... |
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> Acroread has always been particularly unstable. I know nothing about the |
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> Linux version of Mathematica. |
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> You can always try revdep-rebuild. |
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He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get |
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the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all |
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the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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