X locks system up hard (APM?)

[Net Llama!]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> On Friday 05 July 2002 03:18 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Blame Redhat.  I saw the *same* exact behavior with RH-7.2 on a laptop.
>>  THen I built & installed XFree86-4.2.0 from source (wiping out the X
>>that RH provided) and the problem completely went away.
> 
> 
> Bleah. I'm already using 4.2.0 and re-installing from source of the exact 
> same version is unappealing. I have several other RH7.3 machines this 
> doesn't happen tho.

As did I.  Are the other RH-7.3 boxes identical hardware?  You wanted a 
fix, i'm giving you one.  Rebuilding X should take less than an hour on 
a PIII-500 or faster CPU.

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