Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:47:37 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: syscons X support (was: X and non-X graphics in 4.4-STABLE: system hangs) Message-ID: <20011202124613.Q81190-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011202210037.A591@grosbein.pp.ru>
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:44:35AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote:
>
> > > It seems to be offtopic, but S3 Trio3D worked just fine with 4.3-RELEASE
> > > and Windows95OSR2. If it is not buggy it should work with 4.4-STABLE.
> > *Should*, yes, in an ideal world, but how much time do you want
> > the committers to spend supporting crap hardware?
>
> The one of benefits of FreeBSD is stability even with old hardware,
"old" != "crap"
> 4.4-STABLE runs perfectly with 486SX-25/8Mb RAM/200M HDD/NE2000 NIC
> and I love it for that :)
>
> > It's also possible, for that matter, that your S3 Trio3D is
> > flaking out, given your experience that building and booting
> > 4.3-RELEASE didn't fix your problem.
>
> No, it still runs as usual with Win95 (dual-boot home computer).
> Well, now I remember that I used XFree86 3.3.5 with 4.3-RELEASE and
> 4.1.0 was built with 4.4-RC here. Perhaps, it is partial incompatibility
> between syscons driver and X 4.1.0. But this is very strange: system runs
> just fine until I try to use console graphics. It's enough just to
> switch from X to console, switch here to VESA_800x600, switch back
> to 80x25 then switch to X and system hangs here, in 80x25 and
> I cannot even break to kernel debugger.
> I suspect bugs in syscons' support for X.
Could be. 4.1.0's driver support is not a proper superset of
3.3.x. Older hardware may be stuck with 3.3.x, newer hardware
requires 4.1.0.
In any case, good luck.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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