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Hi all, How does X server work well on dom0 in general? I''m experiencing frequently drawn gabages and sometimes crashes and hangs (100% cpu) of certain X applications. Usually on my deskstop, gnome-panel, sawfish, krxvt, firefox, and gkrellm are only present. gnome-panel (and some applets) and firefox crash sometimes. Sawfish in addition to the two above draws garbage. krxvt and gkrellm work...

...as I don't understand all that is going on. The system is composed of an NV96 (9600 GT) and an NVAC (9400 M) card; acceleration is disabled, otherwise the system hangs at boot after initialising the NV96 card. The problem consist of a complete garbage screen in console mode, and a one-third gabage screen in GUI. It appeared in commit 20abd1634a6e2eedb84ca977adea56b8aa06cc3e, as it was initialising some structures only when acceleration was on, even if it was later used in both cases. These structures changed in commit ebb945a94bba2ce8dff7b0942ff2b3f2a52a0a69, solving the initial issue but...

...l bug in the system. > > The system is composed of an NV96 (9600 GT) and an NVAC (9400 M) card; > acceleration is disabled, otherwise the system hangs at boot after > initialising the NV96 card. > The problem consist of a complete garbage screen in console mode, and a > one-third gabage screen in GUI. What happens if you only enable acceleration on the NVAC card? (e.g. by hacking up nouveau to ignore the other one entirely). Wasn't there some thing where the NV96 card was effectively disabled but still appearing in PCI space? Or I might be thinking of a different mac situatio...