From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 5 01:27:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA10686 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 01:27:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ren.dtir.qld.gov.au (firewall-user@ns.dtir.qld.gov.au [203.108.138.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10665 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 01:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.dtir.qld.gov.au; id TAA04442; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:35:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) by ren.dtir.qld.gov.au via smap (3.2) id xma004440; Thu, 5 Mar 98 19:35:44 +1000 Received: from troll.dtir.qld.gov.au (troll.dtir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.1]) by ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00316; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:27:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (syssgm@localhost) by troll.dtir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA15964; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:27:06 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199803050927.TAA15964@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au> X-Authentication-Warning: troll.dtir.qld.gov.au: syssgm@localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Nate Williams cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) References: <199803050530.WAA16531@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199803050530.WAA16531@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "05 Mar 1998 15:36:45 +1000" Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 19:27:06 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 5th March 1998, Nate Williams wrote: >> > I can tell you that uniquivocally XFree86 causes this to happen. >> >> I am guessing it is something to do with the S3 chip. > >But I didn't change boards when I changed X servers. XFree86 caused >them, XIG didn't. The hardware was exactly the same, the only >difference was the Xserver. But do you have an S3 or a Matrox? (I missed the bit where you detailed your hardware configuration.) If it is a Matrox and there is a special "go easy on the PCI bus" flag in some deeply buried register, it could have been missed by the XFree86 people but correctly set by XiG. And to stick up for S3, I use 801 ISA, 805 VLB and Trio64V+ PCI based video in various machines and have seen no serial port interference from any of them. But the borrowed Matrox caused silo overflow problems. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message