Re: X.org 7.4 dying under Geomview

[Lloyd Wood <L dot Wood at surrey dot ac dot uk>]

I should add that after doing startx 2>&1, the console error I'm seeing once I launch geomview from an
xterm with
./geomview -run ../savi1.4.2/savi 

and the local Cygwin/X display crashes under Geomview is:
xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on Xserver ":0.0"
xinit: connection to X server lost.

/var/log/XWin.0.og doesn't show anything beyond 'XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display'.

At Thursday 2/19/2009 09:11 AM +0000, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>I have also noticed that, in -multiwindow mode, graphical updates for Geomview's camera window
>now only happen for the area covered by the original camera position. That is, if you move the
>Windows window on screen, only the area of that window that overlaps with the area of original
>window content's position will be updated with new animations prompted by SaVi. (Rooted
>desktop drawing behaviour is fine. Either windowing mode crashes the Xserver after about 30
>seconds of use of SaVi and Geomview.)
>
>This drawing behaviour is a regression in behaviour from the previous X multiwindow behaviour,
>where SaVi and Geomview animated fine.
>
>http://www.geomview.org/
>http://savi.sf.net/ 
>
>
>> I'm using SaVi and Geomview under Cygwin/X and WinXP SP2 (a 2MB Thinkpad
>> T43). See:
>http://savi.sf.net/
>> The new X server has a nasty habit of dying horribly when I begin
>> using SaVi and Geomview - there's your test case. I can live without the
>> hardware acceleration - it's a good way of tightening SaVi's
>> geomview commands to remove redundant drawing and group drawing commands
>> together to remove unnecessary geomview updates - but other geomview users
>> will have a different view.
>>
>> And only getting thirty seconds or so of use before the X server dies
>> and takes everything else with it is a showstopper for all of us.
>>
>> Geomview now seems to be easier to build under the new Xserver regime -
>> ./configure and make just work and do the right thing without command-line
>> nudges - but it's far less robust and reliable in use under the new
>> X server.
>
>
>SaVi satellite constellation visualization: http://savi.sf.net/
>
><http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> 


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