[UCLA-LUG] Followup to freaky X v.4 problem

[Gareth J. Greenaway]

if you are using Debian (woody) unstable then there was a problem with
sawmill 0.25.2 I think.  Its fixed in 0.26.x. I had the same problem.

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Mark James Fasheh wrote:

> hrm.  well, I _am_ having problems with X4.0...  Sawmill never seems to want
> to start up anymore, so I've been using E (ugh).  Anyone have *that*
> problem?  Anyways, I upgraded in order to grab the new drivers for my tnt2,
> and might I say that I've been gettting a good 40-45 fps in games like
> quake3!  Only problem is that my drivers aren't free(speech).  Needless to
> say, I won't be buying from nvidia anymore..
> 	--Mark
> 
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 04:50:06PM -0700, Joshua Barratt wrote:
> > Just thought the morbidly curious of you out there'd like to know . . .
> > 
> > I'm a dumbass :)
> > 
> > Inspiration hit as I walked back from class -- it turns out I actually
> > have an 8MB video card rather than a 16. So we all learn that when X
> > thinks it has 16mb to play with, it puts things in some magical mystery
> > space and then can't get them back -- leaving odd black boxes all over
> > your screen. I'm kind of shuddering to think what it was really writing
> > to, but it didn't seem to adversely effect anything else and it never
> > crashed. ??? So I am now marking myself down as "happy camper" w.r.t. X4,
> > it very much seems snappier than it's noble predecessor when doing things
> > like desktop slides and complex window raises.
> > 
> > Have a nice one . . .
> > 
> > 	Josh
> > 
> > 
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