Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:36:24 Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:08:41 -0400, Denis <denis.che@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can
> 
> cause
> 
> >> a lot
> >> of problems.
> >
> > Alright, I am now running 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel, but I still have
> > the same issue.
> >
> > I think it's a scroll-bar that triggers it.  If I drag a scrollbar
> > down with my mouse and then run it back up, there is a delayed
> > response (especially in Acrobat Reader), and when I do that in
> > Mathematica 5.2, that simply crashes X.
> >
> > Now I am kind of regretting that I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6...  I
> > was very happy with 1.5 and before.  Sigh.  May this be a library
> > issue?  Gtk?  I received some kind of an error from Gtk, if I recall,
> > while using acroread, but acroread did not crash...
> 
> Acroread has always been particularly unstable. I know nothing about the
> Linux version of Mathematica.
> 
> You can always try revdep-rebuild.

He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get 
the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need all 
the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate
 

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