izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen) (09/29/89)
I am having a problem with 386/ix X windows. Everyonce in a while it seems
like certain events are missed. When I hotkey over the virtual terminal
from which I started X, there is a message "Problem with ptr:OVERFLOW"
I checked (via /etc/crash command strstat) the status of my streams and there
were no failures there. I increased the streams parameter anyway, as s
in this newsgroup. That didn't help. This has happened under 2.0.1, as
well as 2.0.2.
One other symptom which may be related-Every once in a while, if I close a
csh xterm window by typing exit, the xterm goes away, but it leaves the
window mapped on the screen. I can iconify it, bu that is somewhat annoying.
The only way I know to clean it up is to shut down X and restart it.
Does anyone out there have any clue as to what's going on?
Thanx.
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or izen@cwru.cwru.edu "My second bike is a car."ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (09/29/89)
In article <3270@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> izen@cwru.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes: >I am having a problem with 386/ix X windows. Everyonce in a while it seems >like certain events are missed. When I hotkey over the virtual terminal >from which I started X, there is a message "Problem with ptr:OVERFLOW" >I checked (via /etc/crash command strstat) the status of my streams and there >were no failures there. I increased the streams parameter anyway, as s >in this newsgroup. That didn't help. This has happened under 2.0.1, as >well as 2.0.2. > >One other symptom which may be related-Every once in a while, if I close a >csh xterm window by typing exit, the xterm goes away, but it leaves the >window mapped on the screen. I can iconify it, bu that is somewhat annoying. >The only way I know to clean it up is to shut down X and restart it. > >Does anyone out there have any clue as to what's going on? > Same symptoms here with X-Windows under 1.0.6. In addition, if I overloaded the system by opening too many windows, it would either freeze (from which I only recovered by reseting) or started loosing some screen information (some of the windows wouldn't redraw completely). It was also very slow. I was running a 20MHz system with 5MB and a VGA 800x600 (16 colors). I recognize this is not an optimal configuration, would more memory fix it? A more general question. Is there such a thing as a poor man's 386 X-workstation that works with acceptable performance? Besides more memory, is a smart graphics card a must for a usable system?