[Xastir] Too many crashes

Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at tc.fluke.com
Wed Dec 10 13:36:59 EST 2003


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Jack Reilly wrote:

> After the Sunday update Xastir stayed up all day Monday - a new record. But it
> was down yesterday, Tuesday,  with a big page-long error message. Then while
> I was copying the error message there was an X crash so I lost it. Xastir was
> again down this morning - this time with no error report.
>
> Should my next step be a video card replacement?

If X11 is crashing, it's likely not Xastir that is causing it.

Try an update of your OS & video driver.

Considering the brand of the card and my own experiences with same,
I'd dump it.

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