From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 09:10:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA25688 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA25683 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA08524; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Jeays cc: "Bryan K. Ogawa" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crashed X-server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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