Message-ID: <d8ad40b50911100844r5fded71ag8567976be01faa4f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-11-10T16:44:10Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: polygon kills X-server
In-Reply-To: <4AF98E40.3050300@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
2009/11/10 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
> This one is extraordinary dangerous: it also killed my kind of X server
> called Windows completely so that I had to reset the machine.
>
> Perhaps it should be debugged on the Linux side with less serious side
> effects....
The best way to debug this might be via a nested X server - something
like Xnest or Xephyr - or possibly on a virtual machine in the hope
that the virtual machine's display system crashes before the host's
does.
I haven't tried this yet!
Barry