Re: 3.9.18 PPC X server
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Ken Tyler wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> > > KDE is fine, GNOME crashes but it did before.
> >
> > But it shouldn't. Can you please describe what happens?
>
> Starts up Gnome alright - provided I don't close any windows until all
> rendering of the initial windows is done. If I close any windows while
> others are appearing the machine freezes, no heartbeat. Similar thing
> happens if I'm too quick with selections while running up down the panel
> menu.
>
> If I'm very carefull and patient with it, gnome will run for awhile.
>
> This is just the same as it was with XF68_FBDev-accel-ppc-glibc-2.1
After more than 5 years of Fvwm2 I switched to GNOME and Sawmill last week.
I haven't noticed such a problem yet, but I'm using the plain Debian
XF68_FBDev.
Note that this is on PPC, not on m68k (don't dare to GNOME on slow m68k boxes
:-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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