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Re: issues with Dell hardware and ATI display drivers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Dec 26 19:27:20 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:26:42 -0500
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On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 19:05 -0500, andrew m. boardman wrote:
> I'm somewhat unclear on what's really proper in this case, but this
> version of the driver (erroneously, I think) forks and leaves a second X
> process lying around (/etc/X11/X vt07, child of the first one which is a
> child of dm); SIGTERM seems to work fine.
On the child, you mean?
Please test /afs/dev.mit.edu/user/ghudson/test/dm on a machine with the
latest-1 driver. I'll submit the patch to source-reviewers shortly; it
sets up the X server as a process group leader and kills it with killpg.
