From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mx5jv-0003fX-HG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:14:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4FC6E072E; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f205.google.com (mail-ew0-f205.google.com [209.85.219.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DE9E072E for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so371204ewy.34 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:14:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=XMVf2f0cz3nIj5R7uPTnk6eVhjsBA2z342WCOXeWZKQ=; b=Rx+3YX/hiux2OLHzdSPcEAadb6RFdTWs/KEeq/yqMc5NLTK48J++9uvJBBTWS5Fks/ MsgwuaxdQ4BT6w0zGFuT6JiA3Z9Wr4GbSpOZpKKAVz/kUqIfkbRXimbNktxsZEfwIge3 jQbdVa/YkmwHB9FtEt4b+Atue+yQ5uUmmSz28= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=R9iGFgiDX2wGYc3+f1rRdC8DWajLdvnFT5IYfDXkuVUcRx5dXVrnoXHSpvs2IvsrOc 8o+DsT967aWkLnvmCOA7R+ZdC0n1OkJH0eOvb4xS3zVfB77VQizAh5lnWQm/BH74ORAG Y1qzqx6Ty+YJeBFw0d1LVFaKoqXmDN9zNrQzs= Received: by 10.211.131.36 with SMTP id i36mr3351912ebn.33.1255295640989; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm448992eya.42.2009.10.11.14.13.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:13:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:13:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: =?utf-8?q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200910112313.00739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 558120eb-ae79-49ac-8a7a-a647c7246a69 X-Archives-Hash: d4e80569c95e4ef2e18594db7c26d3a8 On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:36:24 Jes=C3=BAs Guerrero wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:08:41 -0400, Denis wrote: > >> nvidia drivers load into the kernel. Driver-kernel interaction can >=20 > cause >=20 > >> 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... >=20 > Acroread has always been particularly unstable. I know nothing about the > Linux version of Mathematica. >=20 > You can always try revdep-rebuild. He may also want to ask the question "Do I *really* need acroread?" and get= =20 the full complete answer. In my experience very few people actually need al= l=20 the features in acroread, and okular|evince are quite adequate =20 =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com