Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> Cc: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crashed X-server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729090826.8468E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970729065626.10463A-100000@austral>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Mike Jeays wrote: > > >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. Well, I can discount the video card/server combo since this is what I have. If it happens w/ another board, perhaps we need to dig a bit deeper: do you know what motherboard you have? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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