Re: with "xv" my Linux freezes (?!)

[SL Baur <steve@example.com>]

Martin Minich <minich5@example.com> writes in tlug@example.com:

> hello all,
> i've always thought that those things are bound to happened just
> with that other "os", but...

> i've got a PC with Intel Pentium Celeron 266 CPU and
> RedHat 6.0 Linux on it;

> i'm running a 2.2.5-15 kernel (that i compiled on the machine myself):

> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.2.5-15 (root@example.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Wed Jul 21 23:34:50 CEST 1999

> my X-windows system is that of XFree86-3.3.3.1-49 RedHat package
> and (if this is of any relevance) there is glibc-2.1.1-6 there

These are all really, really old versions.  I would suggest trying an
upgrade first.  XFree to 3.3.6[1], glibc to 2.1.3[2], and kernel 2.2.18.

> i've got problems using program called "xv" under X (version
> xv-3.10a from RH package xv-3.10a-13)

xv is stable code that hasn't been touched in years.  I haven't ever
had a problem with it.

Footnotes: 
[1]  Beware of XFree v4.  It doesn't support as many video cards as
3.3.6 does.  To name one, the Fujitsu, FMV Biblo notebook isn't
supported in v4.

[2]   Glibc-2.1.3 has some serious bugs in it, so grab someone's
patched SRPM.  Blindly upgrading to 2.2 will probably break your
system unless you really know what you're doing.