Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 16:53:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neomagic chipset - is it a hardware problem ? Message-ID: <199808042353.QAA00457@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 19:02:46 %2B0200." <27213.902250166@verdi.nethelp.no>
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> > > Has anyone else seen this problem ? I'm pretty much convinced that > > > it's a hardware problem now, so I'll probably return the machine > > > (second time) nearer the end of the week. > > > > I've seen similar symptoms on a Toshiba using the C&T 65555. The part > > would misbehave so badly that the X server would crash. > > > > Windows worked OK on it though; my hypothesis was just that the X > > driver wasn't doing whatever power management stuff the Windows driver > > was, and so the chip was overheating. I could be way off on that > > though; I know nothing about the C&T architecture. > > I'm using an Acer Extensa 390 here, with a C&T 65555 graphics chip in > 800x600 mode. It's working just fine for me - never had any problem with > X. suspend/resume works too. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there was anything wrong with the Toshiba or C&T devices in general (especially since I have been bashing this 220CDS for about a year now), merely that I had seen similar symptoms on one such unit which was overheating. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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