X locks system up hard (APM?)

[Ted Ozolins]

On Friday 05 July 2002 13:18, Net Llama! wrote:
yone know how to troubleshoot this?

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I had the same sort of prob with Rh 7.3 only X didn't lock up, I would have to 
<Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> everytime I would login as anther user. Xine would 
lock up solid every third or forth clip (mpeg) so I dumped Rh. Slackware on 
the same machine doesn't have these problems.
>
> 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.

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Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.