On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Karl Waclawek wrote: >A while ago (Aug. 9 2002) Salvador Peralta reported frequent >lock-ups of XFree86 under RedHat 7.3 with an ATI Rage 128 card. > >This is just to confirm that he is not the only one with that problem. >Ever since I upgraded to RedHat 7.2 did I encounter those lockups. >Most frequently they happen when dragging a scrollbar with the mouse, >but they can also happen in any other situation. > >I have "up2dated" my installation (now at kernel 2.4.18-24.7), >but the problem persists. If I had to use Linux every day, >my system would be considered unusable. > >Salvador reported to me that he could solve the problem by >turning off graphics acceleration in XF86Config. > >My card is an ATI Expert 2000 PRO 32MB AGP. >My MB is an ASUS CUV4X (VIA 694X AGP chipset). Experiment with the XaaNoxxxx options on the XF86Config manpage, and you wont lose 2D acceleration completely. I'm pretty sure this problem is no longer present in 8.0, or at least not in my current 4.2.1 rpms on people.redhat.com -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
