somewhat off topic - NOT an XFce bug

[Craig A. Betts]

Neal wrote:
> 
> I downloaded RedHat's new 7.3 release and installed clean on my desktop. The first thing I did was download Edscott's xfce.src rpm and build it.  It went as expected and XFce was running as slick as always.
> 
> Galeon, sylpheed-claws, Xchat and Pan all worked as expected.
> 
> I was doing some file system exploring with Xftree when X locked up. The mouse pointer would move normally, but no response from the keyboard and no window focus.  I restarted the box and repeated the sequence using Xftree.  Sure enough it locked again and again.  Thankfully, ext3 recovered each time.  I started Gnome and found that I could repeat the problem.  KDE did the same thing.
> 
> My video card is an ATI Rage 128 R with 32M of memory.  It never gave me any problem with earlier versions of X.  Normally, for no particular reason I can recall, I would set the color depth to 16-bit, and that was where I had it set during the lock-ups.
> 
> The problem disappeared when I re-set the color depth to 24-bit!  Thought I would share that with the group.
> 
> p.s.  If Joe is against 16-bit color, we all now know why.  :)
> --
> Neal
> Registered Linux User #159445 running
> RedHat 7.3, kernel 2.4.18/ext3 and XFce, Athlon800 Desktop
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Thanks for sharing that.  I experienced the same exact problem (same
card, same settings).  I fixed mine by degrading to XFree86 3.  I guess
I will go back and try XFree86 4.  Thanks again!
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Craig A. Betts
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