Re: Enlightenment (or not!)

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

I'm afraid what you're describing sounds more to me like hardware (in
particular, RAM) faults, rather than software. Gedit shouldn't seg all
over the place, and getting odd blocks on your screen is another sign of
memory corruption (everything you're getting is a sign of memory
corruption!!). Now, whether it's the software corrupting the memory or
some hardware doing it is the root of the problem: it could also be
something like you've misdefined the amount of RAM the machine has, told X
the graphics card has more RAM than it has, etc. In short, it sounds like
a RAM problem ;)) You might want to try swapping out the SIMMs/DIMMs and
the graphics card, and see if the problem is replicated. (Preferably, same
model of graphics card, etc.) 

Cheers,

Alex.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Ian Wright wrote:
> I've got my RH6.1 box running with Gnome and Enlightenment window manager
> and I get all sorts of strange problems which are puzzling me. In Gedit I
> get frequent crashes with an error message saying 'segmentation fault' and
> in the normal terminal window I get odd blocks appearing on the screen after
> I do a mouse click. Also, since I set it to use one of the 'themes', the
> terminal window seems to put the text wherever it wants (the difficulty now
> is that I can't see a way to revert to the original setup). I'm not
> particularly impressed with Enlightenment and Gnome and will probably
> install KDE before long as it has proved good and stable on my other linux
> box, but I would like to know what is causing the problems. Do you think it
> could be associated with the graphics card/monitor setup - it's an ATI Rage
> II Mach 64 canrd and Samsung Syncmaster 3 monitor?

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