Re: XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David - and all others, I now found a (minor?) clue to my problem (signal 11 on screen activity if xserver in background and virtual console in foreground): When I disable font anti-aliasing under KDE the xserver does NOT crash! Any idea now? (I still believe it's an xfree86 problem!) Thomas

Re: XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David Goodenough wrote: > > The only thing I did strange with X and the mouse was to get rid of gpm or > whatever it is called, and drive the mouse directly from X. David, I don't use gpm (I simply don't need it; to be honest I didn't know that I have to use gmpdata instead of the real mouse por

Re: XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 08 October 2001 7:22 pm, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > David, > > thanks for your quick reply! > > David Goodenough wrote: > > Thomas, > > > > I think that under the covers your box is a Clevo 2700C or there > > abouts. > > Possibly, I have not opened it (yet :) ) > > > I have one of these

Re: XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David, thanks for your quick reply! David Goodenough wrote: > > Thomas, > > I think that under the covers your box is a Clevo 2700C or there > abouts. Possibly, I have not opened it (yet :) ) > I have one of these, and am running it with kernel > 2.4.5 and XFree86 4.1.0 without either of the

XFree on Sis630 / Framebuffer problem

2001-10-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Hi, I am one of those (poor) using the vesa-framebuffer on a Gericom Webshox Laptop (SiS 630) for making X (4.1.0-6 and 7) run at all. I'm running kernel 2.4.10, but the problem also exists in 2.4.9. Further, I am using KDE 2.2.1 - but that doesn't seem of importance either. Not enough that this