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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>
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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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