Subject: Re: X freeze under 1.6 beta 3
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/26/2002 17:59:22
Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
> I installed 1.6beta3 on my laptop last night. While doing some
> disk-intensive stuff, X froze. The machine itself was still alive -- I
> was able to login in remotely -- but I couldn't get anything X-related
> to respond. Killing twm, and even killing X, didn't help -- they
> exited, but the scren and keyboard appeared to be frozen. I eventually
> had to reboot.
>
> I'm running X 4.1.0 on a Thinkpad T21, if that helps. It's using the
> Savage driver.
I'm not having any trouble, but I'm using 4.2.0 and a much newer
Savage driver....
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