> He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get > the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all > the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate
I am flexible on acroread, but acroread doesn't crash X - just gets a little backed up. I am OK with that. But X crashing from my use of Mathematica is absolutely unacceptable - this is what I need for my work. Before I upgraded to xorg-1.6 and libxcb-1.4, this *never* happened, not once, *in several years*, under extensive use, and I have been using the same Mathematica version all this time, 5.2. So if downgrading X and libxcb is what I have to do to restore reliable operation of my machine with Mathematica, then this is what I am doing next. Let me ask this next: is the downgrade of libxcb and xorg-server possible?
