From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 8 5: 0:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.203.69.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5007437B422 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 05:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161oml-0003lf-00; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 12:59:59 +0000 To: iberiozko@infodom.ru, jon@witchspace.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Curious crash In-Reply-To: Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 12:59:59 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Aha, I've experienced it on a Matrox Millenium. I just heard from someone who has seen it under windows too - though it was fixed by a driver update. I have been uusing these cards under OpenStep for years thoygh, and have never come across this before. > Was VESA support compiled into the kernel? I've written a screensaver > module which crashes on the Matrox Millenium when I try and run in > 800x600x8, I wonder if there's something odd with the Millenium > VESA support? No, VESA support wasnt compiled in. It seems that these cards are very sensetive to their device drivers - so maybe FreeBSD is doing something valid-but-unusual which tickles a bug in it that doesnt get hit by other operating systems ? Its frustrating that its so hard to reproduce too as it makes the chances of fixng it very slim indeed. Sigh. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message