Re: total freeze with framebuffer + X

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:46:27 +0000 (GMT)

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is it not in some FAQ that if you use fb you should either use FB_Dev X
server or use the normal/accelerated one (as I do because it's fast) but
_never_ complain that something freezes when you do something strange in
X.

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You wrote:
> I have framebuffer support enabled (atyfb) with an ATI Mach64 card
> (Xpert98). If I run X twice, i.e. start X, then run another server from
> within an xterm, the machine freezes. This does not happen if
> framebuffer
> is disabled. I've seen this since 2.2.1 (when I first compiled
> framebuffer in).

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