Freeze with xrandr

[Auke Kok]

On 08/30/2011 03:51 PM, john Culleton wrote:
>
> I use xrandr to restore the zoom and pan functions found under older
> versions of Slackware Linux. If I set up xrandr to both zoom and pan I
> am guaranteed a freeze in a few minutes of use. So I have been using
> xrandr just for zooming and living without the pan function.
>
> Today however I had a total freeze with no pan facility in use.
>
> I really hate KDE4, even in "classic" mode. And Salix doesn't seem to
> offer classic mode. But I will test KDE4 using xrandr to see if it
> avoids the freeze problem. If it does or does not I will report back.

Since xrandr itself doesn't interact with any of the UI, you should 
probably seek to duplicate this bug using a "failsafe" session where you 
only have Xorg and an xterm, or something like that.

It's most likely a driver update that broke something.

Auke