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Old 02-07-2006, 07:35 AM   #1
johnleemk
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X11 occasionally hangs


I'm using X.org's XFree86/X11 on Arch Linux 0.7 (Wombat) with the XFCE 4.2.0 window manager. Sometimes just when I click on something, X hangs. The mouse cursor can still move, however. It's only X, because my gAIM and XChat beep when I get new messages. However, I can't quit X. All sorts of combinations of shift, alt, ctrl, backspace and esc have been tried, none of which will stop/restart X. It's very annoying, because this happens two or three times a day. I don't think it's my hardware, because I can compile the kernel just fine (from my experience, if the processing hardware is damaged, recompiling the kernel is the best way to test for this). Suggestions?
 
Old 02-07-2006, 10:48 AM   #2
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hi m8

what graphics card drivers are you using?


if it was me though i would try a different window manager (just for a day or something) to see if it still crashes, and then try updating stuff (XFCE, X11, graphics card drivers, etc etc).

Let me know how you get on
 
Old 02-07-2006, 12:55 PM   #3
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From /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "** NVIDIA (generic) [nv]"
Driver "nv"
#VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

I will try a different window manager tomorrow.
 
Old 02-08-2006, 09:59 AM   #4
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I've used KDE the whole day today and not a single crash. Damn it, I liked XFCE! How can I fix it?
 
  


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