Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 07:01:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crashed X-server Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970729065626.10463A-100000@austral> In-Reply-To: <199707290821.BAA18204@foo.primenet.com>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: > >On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Mike Jeays wrote: > > >> My X-server crashes much harder than this - it becomes entirely > >> non-responsive to all key combinations that I have ever tried, > >> including the ones you suggest. I believe the OS is still running in the > >> background, but is entirely inaccessible. Does this seem plausible? > > >Yeah, it can happen. The X server must be locking up _solid_ for this to > >happen. What type of video card do you have? > > I'm not Mike, but I thought I'd throw my $0.02 in. > > I have experienced even harder lockups than this, to the point of > losing task switching (e.g. I'm playing midi music, and it stops, and > _all_ drive accesses stop). > > This has been with a Matrox Millenium, 24bpp, with Motif applications > . The color depth seems to be a critical factor: I'm using XFree under > 32bpp and it's been fine, even when I'm behaving "dangerously". > > >From what I understand, 24bpp is more prone to bugginess than 32/8 > bits. Mike, if you are experiencing hard crashes, I am curious if you > are using 24bpp or 8/32? > > -- > bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ > I am using an ATI Mach64 card with 2MB, at 16bpp. I have had similar lockups with an old Trident 8900C at 8bpp. The ATI will work at 24bpp in 800x600, but 1024x768 is beyond it (and/or my monitor), as far as I can tell. I will try a few more experiments, and post again if I find anything interesting. Thanks again for the assistance!
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