Re: Window manager problems.

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From: Ian Stirling
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:00

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Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:14:00 GMT, Ian Stirling <Inquisitor@I.am> wrote:
<snip>
>>I do have a bttv card, IIRC, when I tried the pre-3.4 version, I could
>>get xawtv to work, if I specified -nodga on the command line.
>>I'll have to check that I'm remembering right.

>I tried that, no luck. I'm pretty certain I read somewhere it's a known
>problem with the S3 XServer. It's REALLY annoying that the damn SVGA
>XServer got broken :(

I've just had it happen (not focusing) under 3.9.16, though it seems to
be much rarer.
Trying 3.9.18

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