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Damien Elmes
resolve at repose.cx
Tue Aug 28 19:28:11 EST 2001
jeremy at itassist.net.au writes:
> >
> > I havn't had the kernel oops on me in a very long time. What were you doing?
>
> Running X. X is capable of blowing _the_ _entire_ _system_ out of the
> water, and XFree 4 did it to me a number of times, on simple things
> (like trying to display a huge string in a window)
DRI and agpgart amplifies this quite a bit. mga+dri would die after a
few X restarts, and the binary nv drivers i'm told do the same thing.
i haven't had a single problem with the open source nv driver so far,
and mga without dri has run well too.
cheers!
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Damien Elmes
resolve at repose.cx
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