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 1Mx9Mb-0003n2-9z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:06:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E303CE07D5; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC0CE07D5 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6774A67967 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:06:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.227 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.227 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.628, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hJB3xGVJ3pgz for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF30767944 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mx9ML-000635-L2 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:05:57 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.187.231]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:05:57 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:05:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:05:31 -0700 Message-ID: References: <200910112313.00739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-187-231.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091011 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 38944f63-b2f2-4024-8525-86de5355394d X-Archives-Hash: 10af66d0d4668ffddc12c943aa97c7f1 On 10/11/2009 05:14 PM, Denis wrote: >> 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 > > I am flexible on acroread, but acroread doesn't crash X - just gets a > little backed up. I am OK with that. > > But X crashing from my use of Mathematica is absolutely unacceptable - I agree, it shouldn't crash. Are you starting Mathematica by clicking on an icon in a menu? If so, I'd suggest starting it from an xterm command prompt because you may see some helpful error messages before the crash. > Let me ask this next: is the downgrade of libxcb and xorg-server possible? I'm sure it is but it may be a pain, like everything always is ;o)