From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 5 02:03:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16372 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 02:03:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu (danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu [128.151.91.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16344 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 02:03:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA00196; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 04:31:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 04:31:42 -0500 (EST) From: Charlie ROOT To: Stephen McKay cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) In-Reply-To: <199803050927.TAA15964@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What version of Xfree86 is this, They fixed a TON of S3 bugs in the 3.3.2 release which was out about 2 days ago. for some strange reason the perms are set wrong on the 3.3.2 dir at ftp.xfree86.org, so i got them from ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/xfree86 --Dan On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Stephen McKay wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message