X locks system up hard (APM?)

[Michael Hipp]

On Friday 05 July 2002 03:42 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Not exactly the same. But both ATI R128. I've submitted a bug report to 
xfree.org. If nothing turns up, I'll have to try your method. Bleah. Double 
Bleah.

Thanks,
Michael