Freeze with xrandr

[Mike Massonnet]

2011/8/31 john Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>
>
> 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.

X.org might be the best place:
http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgMailingLists

> thanks for your help.
>
>
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