Dear listmembers,
1.) Resolution problem
did anyone ever try to configure a small monitor on a system for someone
having (temporarily ...) a large one connected? I found that despite all of
my configuration attempts and my settings Xorg always started at 1600x1200
even though I adjusted the settings for 1024x768 at max.
This can be very annoying. I saw this happen on a HP P1110 monitor with an ATI
Radeon card in the PC. In contrast, when connecting only hsync and vsync,
everything was fine - because no information about the monitor could be
achieved.
This seems a very "M$-ish" behaviour. I think it is *very* good if there is no
way to set larger resolutions than the monitor can cope with - but I feel it
is not as wise to stupidly ignore what the user is trying to adjust.
This happened with a "standard" installation of 9.2.
2.) Stability issues on 9.2
I have a Tyan Tiger SMP mother board with a Radeon 9000 graphics card. When
leaving the system alone with the screensaver "random" it fails within 1h to
two days. The screen freezes, no mouse, no keyboard interaction possible. I
found out that the system is still running, I can ssh to it. Then I see X
eating up 99.9% of all system ressources. Killing the X server or doing a
shutdown cures the situation. I upgraded to 6.8.2 rc 3 in the meantime,
however, the effect remains the same. Apart from this the system cannot be
brought out of sync with highest loads (running kernel compiles in an endless
loop is without any problem using a terminal without X.
Using only the "blank screen" screensaver reduces the problem, the freezes
still happen, but in this case it takes several days for the system to
freeze. I did not see anything "weird" within /var/log/messages or the
xorg-logfiles.
I could provide Xorg-logfiles and a "top" output when seing the screen lock;
could anyone give me a commentary on this? Would this be the right list to
post to?
Many thanks for your efforts in advance,
any help is greatly appreciated,
take care
Dieter Jurzitza
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