Mad Dog w/Radeon 7000 looses signal

[Olivier Fourdan]

Jay,

I'm not very at ease with such problem reports because I would tend to
say it's a driver problem (a quick search on google shows that the
radeon driver has its problems too). I don't want to claim "it's not
xfce, it's xfree", but the fact is that it's my first time I get such
report.

As for gnome not showing the problem, it's not unusual that developpers
use different ways to acheive the same goal. There is not only way to do
things. The way xfce does thing *might* show a problem in the driver.

Of course all this is just a guess, as I have no clue ;-)

There are 2 branches of xfce, the devel and the stable. The stable is
for xfce3 while the devel branch is for xfce4. If you want to download
xfwm4, you can get it from xfce.sf.net (both tarballs or rpm)

However xfwm4 is still under developpment and I doubt it will fit your
need with xfce v3.

Cheers,
Olivier
 
On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 20:04, Jay Daniels wrote:
> 
> I have xfce installed and it works perfectly except for one problem. 
> About once a day or so the windows go crazy and/or the monitor either
> looses it's signal or the keyboard locks up - usually occurs while using
> the mouse to page down. This requires hitting the reset button.
> 
> Currently using a ATI Mad Dog w/Radeon chip 7000 dvi32mb version and
> RedHat 7.3 w/updates on an AMD 500mhz with 448MB RAM and fairly new Sony
> 17in monitor 200ES.  Logitech Mouseman 3button ps2 mouse.
> 
> The reason for posting this here is because I never had a problem with
> this box in Gnome.  Also, when I tried true color at 1024x768 the
> problem was a lot more visible and would occur quiet often!  Now I have
> it set to 1024x768 @ 16bit color and crashes are a lot less, like once a
> day.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I downloaded and installed the development version thinking it may solve
> this problem, but it seems to be still using the old version of xfwm.
> How do I get startx or startxfce to use xfwm4?
> 
> 
> 
> jay
> 
> 
> 
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