Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:58:51 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Odd Xorg instability, and KDE errors Message-ID: <8A43F6ED-99A1-45C2-8A1E-FBFC6AC4B05B@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508191017100.1435@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> References: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508181125390.21013@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508191017100.1435@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE>
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On Aug 19, 2005, at 1:19 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: > > Are there really nobody but me who has had problems with X dying? > > I've seen bug reported on Linux that Firefox seems to kill X. > > Should I take it to the ports list instead? > > I'm seriously doubting the sense of FreeBSD moving to Xorg. It has > given me grey hairs where XFree86 kept running for years. > > /andreas FreeBSD's compiled version of Xorg doesn't die like Linux's compiled version of Xorg; I narrowed my issues down to kernel drivers dealing with power management (and possibly the video card), but a lot of people had issues with Firefox, big fonts in X, and other various hardware junk. -Garrett
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