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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.

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\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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