Freeze with xrandr

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:05:20 -0700
Auke Kok <auke at foo-projects.org> wrote:

> 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
Tried the failsafe session. Any rapid mouse movement caused freeze. So
it is not an XFCE problem.  I'll try on a linux group.

thanks for your help.


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