Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:30:11 -0600 From: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> To: gnut@cki.ipri.kiev.ua Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 VIRGE troubles Message-ID: <35E8C743.77D75D16@verinet.com>
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> Hello! > > So happened I manage several computers with FreeBSD installed on them. > Among them one has S3 VIRGE based videocard, and one has S3 VIRGE DX > based videocard. Both these computers work perfect except that during > X session logout they may hang. It happens only during logouts. > And these crashes/lockups look like green vertical lines on a monitor. > And 'reset' button is the only way out. > > I'm asking if anyone experienced this problem and how did they cope > it? > > Please help me. > > P.S. This 'feature' never happened on another S3-8* simple freebsd box > and this feature was experienced on freebsd 2.2.2. and 2.2.6. > May be I sPPS Is there any hardware-specific mailing lists on freebsd.org? I am having the exact same problem. I have an STB card with the S3 VIRGE chipset. When the X server tries to leave graphics mode, the machine hangs and vertical stripes appear. The machine is dead at that point; Control-alt-backspace does nothing and it won't respond to ping. I use a separate X terminal, so I am not that hindered by this; it only happens at the end of a session. It would be a show stopper it I didn't have a separate X terminal. Have you found out anything? The XFree86 site had nothing on this. Other than this one problem the X server works great. I what did you learn in trying the SVGA server? > PPS Is there any hardware-specific mailing lists on freebsd.org? Send a message to majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG with the word 'lists' in the body. The list server will respond with the names of all of the FreeBSD.ORG mailing lists. -- Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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