Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 13:14:34 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably... Message-ID: <199511162114.NAA23830@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <199511150652.AA002288372@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from "Darryl Okahata" at Nov 14, 95 10:52:52 pm
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Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com writes: > > > The cards themselves are no great shakes, and the behaviour of the server > > > leads me to _strongly_ discourage people from using them. (Especially giv > > > how cheap S3-based cards are these days). > > > > The et4000/w32p server has been rock solid under Linux for over a year... > > just a data point... > > It would be interesting to see if the people who are having > problems with ET4000/W32p-based video cards are using syscons or pcvt. > There have been a few posts recently regarding the "better robustness" > of pcvt (vs syscons), and I just recently found a "bug" in syscons that > was causing all my syscons fonts to be corrupted (after using > X-Windows). I'm using syscons... also, I can make this happens pretty easily so if there's something anyone wants me to try I will. For the time being, I've been starting X and just never switching back.. :-) -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com
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