Re: total freeze with framebuffer + X

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:43:23 -0500

On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 12:46:27PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 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.
>

Never seen it. Not there in Doc/fb/framebuffer.txt, anyway. Besides, I don't
see why I shouldn't complain to _someone_. Either the kernel or X is buggy.

I've forwarded the original message to xfree86@xfree86.org, to see if they
can come up with something.

-- arvind

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