fuzzy, you can track down the specific xserver that you need for your hardware and install it without installing the entire xfree package. ive heard many a folk say theyve loaded up a knoppix cd and yoinked the xfconfig and xserver being used and injected it into dsl. i was lucky to find this on the forums: http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....86_svga which happened to be the right one for my machine. might be the one for you...
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Chris, that doesn't look too bad to me. You're actually only using 42mb...the other 200 are just cached.
Well, dumb me. I guess I don't know what I'm looking at. If that is OK then maybe there isn't an xvesa issue? As you can see that machine was up for 6 days.There was a memory leak in some older versions in Xvesa, but I thought Robert fixed it.
I get no leakage on my DSL 1.5 install on my toshiba.
-J.P.Nothing out of the ordanary is running on this machine. The only things that run that aren't default are smbd and nmbd. I also noticed that when I run firefox I get 4 "firefox-bin" files each taking up 22-23MB (Status=S, RSS=23M, command=firefox-bin). I doubt any of this has to do with the problem though.
I did a fresh install with 1.5 on this machine and have not messed with any display settings (other than running xsetup.sh). Xvesa should be as fresh as a daisy. I am so full of whoa and anguish, please help.
-Fuzzy I had a similar problem quite a few versions ago, where after being left on for a few days it would eat up all my memory and be unresponsive. At that point I just switched to Xfbdev, which has suited me just fine.Next Page...
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If that is OK then maybe there isn't an xvesa issue? As you can see that machine was up for 6 days.