Subject: Re: Random hangs with Xmacppc?
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/10/2001 17:38:29
At 3:00 PM -0400 7/9/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>So I'm sitting here at this PowerMac 6500 I hauled up to Wasabi's
>NYC office, and periodically, X just locks up.
>
>Once, when I was initially setting the machine up, I got a ddb
>prompt (in the wscons font) written to the screen when this
>happened, but I wrote that off to X libs out of sync with the rest
>of the system and forgot it. But now I find that, after random
>periods of time, X just locks up.

I recall a comment on this list that there was a bug in the colormap 
code in OF 1.0.5 which would trash X after a while if you actually 
used it.


Cross my heart, strike me dead, stick a lobster on my head.
John Crichton -- Farscape, 6/15/01
h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu