Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:28:39 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <RoKlein@roklein.de>, "Chip" <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <012801c171b6$845a9500$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <006901c171b1$f549f760$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted writes: > If the Xserver is properly written you cannot lock > up or crash your system with KDE or any other buggy > window manager. I am reassured. I assume that XFree86 is the X Server in this case? At least I recall installing that before I installed KDE. My own guess is that the environment exposed a bug in a video driver or something (I'm using a generic driver with a GeForce video card, although I'm just using a relatively vanilla 1024x768 video mode). A bug in a driver could obviously crash the OS, since drivers must be trusted. > Sure you can cause the window manager to dump core > or whatever ... KDE takes a core dump every time I log out of it. Not very reassuring. > Even an Xserver that isn't necessairly buggy but > instead gets something back that's unexpected from > the video card chipset can do this. That would make sense in my case. Of course, it still makes the GUI environment that caused it too unstable to use. > It's not the best thing from a stability standpoint > to run the Xserver on the same system that you want > to run the X clients on. But isn't that exactly what most people are doing, when they try to use FreeBSD as a replacement for Windows? I wouldn't mind running the server on my Windows machine, but no X Server for Windows seems to cost less than $250-$500 dollars. In fact, I'd actually prefer to run the server on my Windows machine, as I treat FreeBSD as a server machine, not a separate desktop. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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