From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 15 13:32:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16813 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:32:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16808 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22757 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:32:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA04561; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:33:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01977; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:15:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.1/8.6.9) id QAA07112; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:34:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:34:50 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199901152134.QAA07112@lakes.dignus.com> To: durang@u.washington.edu, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: WordPerfect "going away" (on 3.0-RELEASE). Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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