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Re: problems with X



Mind telling me which X server version and which graphics card?

It's pretty important..

Also - does it happend with the latest mozilla??

Hetz

On Sunday 22 July 2001 02:41, Ariel Biener wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>
>
>    I have had a number of complaints from different departments at
> Tel-Aviv University, and I also have experienced it myself, so I want to
> ask others too:
>
> Since we started working with XFree 4 (4.0.3 or 4.1.0 or 4.0.1 or 4.0.2,
> doesn't matter really), the stability of the X windows environment has
> dropped dramatically. The main culprint is netscape.
>
> Users have been restarting their X servers (if they can login from some
> other place and kill it) or rebooting their machines something like 10-30
> times a day.
>
> I will give you a scenarion that creats the above mentioned behaviour, one
> among many. Academic users use browsers alot, for many things, whether
> it's retrieving information from databases or knowledge bases, or
> listening to lectures using video on demand (realplayer), or doing any
> other stuff, but in general, they are heavy brower users.
>
> This happens with different netscape versions, mainly 4.7x.
>
> Scenario:
>
> Go to www.rpmfind.net
>
> There in the input box, type whatever, for example, gcc. Press
> search. When you get to the page with the gcc versions, type in the
> search input box something else, for example, gcc-devel, and while
> typing, press backspace. This freezes the X server.
>
>
> Anyone experiencing degradation of stability with Xfree 4 ?
>
>
> --Ariel
>
>
> --
> Ariel Biener
> e-mail: ariel@post.tau.ac.il
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>
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