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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:45:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Freeze with 2.2CAM-19980716-SNAP + XF863323 + PII + S3V
Message-ID:  <199809021245.IAA02114@lakes.dignus.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809012201.WAA00688@word.smith.net.au>

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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes:

> 
> > 	This is quite strange:
> > 
> > Config:
> > 
> > 	Asus P2B-LS (PII/333) with on-board fxp0 and ahc 7890,
> > 	128 MB RAM, and 2 x Quantum Viking II.
> > 
> > Symptom:
> > 
> > 	When running X under certain conditions
> > 	(must be X server supporting S3V chipset accel., like XF86_SVGA,
> > 	or XF86_S3V), and with certain programs, the machine will freeze
> > 	instantly (no panic, nada).
> 
> I have been seeing the same symptoms with an S3V system for a long time 
> (6+ months); by varying the options to the S3 server and the system PCI 
> timings I can alter the 'ease of freeze', but it's always possible.  
> Swapping console <-> X and popping up a twm menu will both do it.
> 
> Either it's a bug in the S3V code, or the hardware itself (I have had 
> occasional lockups on that system with other operating systems as well).
> 

 I don't believe it's specific to the S3V code, as I get the exact
 same symptoms with the normal SVGA server (on a Matrox Millenium II card.)

 Is your kernel/system set up to do a savecore?  Perhaps that would
 be enlightening...


	- Dave Rivers -



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