Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:34:50 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: durang@u.washington.edu, rivers@dignus.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: WordPerfect "going away" (on 3.0-RELEASE). Message-ID: <199901152134.QAA07112@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901151320460.103310-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu>
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> > On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > What's happening is that every now-and-then, on an text insert (usually > > a copy-and-paste from another window) or a font resize; WordPerfect seems > > to "go away" for many minutes. > > > It seems to be related to X11 somehow... after awhile the process will > > totally lock up, then my X server will hang and I have to login from > > another machine to kill WordPerfect and get my X server back. (I have > > a Matrox Millenium II card, if that's meaningful.) > > There were a couple items sent to the list a month or two ago regarding > the Matrox Millenium causing the screen to go blank for a few seconds. It > happens to me with the Matrox Mystique. I wonder if this happens on your > machine too, or if the abnormal behavior is only while using WordPerfect? > > Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington > durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering > > Actually, I'm having a couple of problems with the Xfree86 in 3.0-RELEASE 1) fxtv is no longer able to directly write to the screen buffer (it was in the previous version with the same hardware.) 2) Every now-and-then, the machine will just lock up. Seems to be related to X events... but I'm not certain (I haven't set up a debuggable kernel just to see what's happening.) - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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