On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, James Kimble wrote:
I have an application running on an older X Server (Version 4.2.0) on a modified Red Hat distro with Kernel version 2.4.20.
The problem is that when the date or time is changed to some date or time in the past our application stops updating (some animated meters). Moving the mouse pointer within the application causes the updates to continue as long as you're moving the mouse. If you stop moving the mouse, updates stop as well. Setting the time to a future date (any date or time later than the current one) usually causes things to start updating normally again. The application is a java GUI however we've substituted a simple X program that just does a little animated cursor and the same behavior occurs.
Has anyone encountered this issue before and, if so, has it been corrected in a later version of X?
I'd suggest trying a newer version, yes, not only because 4.2 is quite old (and thus unlikely to elicit a response here), but also because there have been related changes since then.
On the other hand, it's debatable whether this can be considered a bug in the software, particularly software that depends on a consistent view of time in the underlying system. How far back in time are you talking about here? Still doing Y2K testing? ;-)
Also you should be able to get better performance out of the ATI driver, rather than the VESA driver.
Marc.
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