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Subject: Re: Odd Xorg instability, and KDE errors
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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