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>From The Desk Of Randall Hopper :
> Amancio Hasty:
>  |We may have to file a bug report with the X server group to see if we can
>  |get them to help us out. I will be honest with you every day I use
>  |fxtv and I don't get a crash -- once I did get the font corruption and
>  |the system didn't craash however I have not been able to reproduce it.
>  |
>  |My take is that is probably more to do with the PCI chipset. 
>  |The "mistery-bit" on the Bt848 is supposed to be a work around for 
>  |the Natoma chipset. I still don't know what is supposed to do other
>  |than  what I stated. All I am saying is that is difficult to troubleshoot
>  |on my PPRo . Guess that I will have to switch testing to my P100 which
>  |does have a Natoma chipset.
> 
> Back from the weekend...
> 
> Interestingly enough, since Mark/my/your latest round of driver mods, I'm
> not able to hang the X server anymore.  Tried hard, but no can do. :-)

Glad to hear that the B848 driver does not crash your system anymore.

That reminds me where is that fxtv hadware clip functionality 8)

	Cheers,
	Amancio