Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:32:19PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:36:52AM -0800, nate wrote: > [...] > | as far as I know, most commercial X servers (IRIX, AIX, HPUX, Solaris) > | do not allow switching either, at least I've never figured out how > | to switch on t

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 11:36, nate wrote: > S Yuval said: > > Ever since I installed Debian, I have to hard boot at least 3 times a day, > > because X windows crashes and hangs the machine. This usually happens when > > the system is busy installing programs, or doing some other resource > > consumi

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread Michael Mueller
On Friday 31 January 2003 11:36, nate wrote: > don't flip between consoles when X is loaded. this is always a bad > idea. some video hardware flips out and will lock up. Other video > hardware may behave better. I've seen this on X for at least 5 years > on different X servers/drivers on linux. >

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:36:52AM -0800, nate wrote: [...] | as far as I know, most commercial X servers (IRIX, AIX, HPUX, Solaris) | do not allow switching either, at least I've never figured out how | to switch on those systems. It's not the X server, it's the kernel. The Alt-Ctrl-F[1-7] virtu

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread nate
S Yuval said: > Ever since I installed Debian, I have to hard boot at least 3 times a day, > because X windows crashes and hangs the machine. This usually happens when > the system is busy installing programs, or doing some other resource > consuming job in one of the virtual consoles (X itself inc

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread Johan Ehnberg
In my experience, this sounds like a resource conflict. I've also had about the same problem with nVidia cards using old drivers. The fact that this problem was also in RedHat, would support my theory. I think your GFX card conflicts with your audio card (or some other card). Some specific acti

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 31 January 2003 09:56, S Yuval wrote: > Also, I noticed that when the computer is idle, X shuts down automatically > after some period of time. How can I cancel this option? That sounds like a problem with power management. Try turning it off in the BIOS and see if the problem persists.