Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:10:49 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca>, "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crashed X-server Message-ID: <199707292010.NAA13283@knife.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729090826.8468E-100000@localhost> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970729090826.8468E-100000@localhost>
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Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> wrote: > 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. Well, I can un-discount it because that is what I have :-). Ever since XFree86 3.1.2 or so, I've been getting a screwed up color map when I try to run at 1280x1024/8bpp. When I drop down to 800x600/16bpp, it works fine. The fun part is that when I'm in the problem mode, I can get kernel panics talking about "recursive_lock" problems on the first or second attempts to start the server. This has been with various combinations of XF86 from (3.1.2, 3.2, 3.2A, 3.3) and OS (2.1.5, 2.2.1, 2.2.2). I would really love to get back to the higher resolution, but I have no idea how to get there from here. My only guess is that the probe is mis-identifying something or some such, but the chip numbers it finds seems to match chips that I find on my video card. > If it happens w/ another board, perhaps we need to dig a bit deeper: do > you know what motherboard you have? All I can remember now (my system is at home & I'm not) is that it's an P90 on an Asus MB running Award BIOS 4.50PG (or something close to that). Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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