From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 01:29:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA24122 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.primenet.com (ip193.sjc.primenet.com [206.165.96.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA24111 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id BAA18204; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707290821.BAA18204@foo.primenet.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: Crashed X-server Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: <> From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Jeays X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Mike Jeays wrote: >> My X-server crashes much harder than this - it becomes entirely >> non-responsive to all key combinations that I have ever tried, >> including the ones you suggest. I believe the OS is still running in the >> background, but is entirely inaccessible. Does this seem plausible? >Yeah, it can happen. The X server must be locking up _solid_ for this to >happen. What type of video card do you have? I'm not Mike, but I thought I'd throw my $0.02 in. I have experienced even harder lockups than this, to the point of losing task switching (e.g. I'm playing midi music, and it stops, and _all_ drive accesses stop). This has been with a Matrox Millenium, 24bpp, with Motif applications . The color depth seems to be a critical factor: I'm using XFree under 32bpp and it's been fine, even when I'm behaving "dangerously". >From what I understand, 24bpp is more prone to bugginess than 32/8 bits. Mike, if you are experiencing hard crashes, I am curious if you are using 24bpp or 8/32? -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/