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Date:      Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:00:37 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
To:        Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   syscons X support (was: X and non-X graphics in 4.4-STABLE: system hangs)
Message-ID:  <20011202210037.A591@grosbein.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20011202084307.L80717-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:44:35AM -0500
References:  <20011202134259.A1204@grosbein.pp.ru> <20011202084307.L80717-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>

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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:44:35AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote:

> > It seems to be offtopic, but S3 Trio3D worked just fine with 4.3-RELEASE
> > and Windows95OSR2. If it is not buggy it should work with 4.4-STABLE.
>     *Should*, yes, in an ideal world, but how much time do you want
> the committers to spend supporting crap hardware?

The one of benefits of FreeBSD is stability even with old hardware,
4.4-STABLE runs perfectly with 486SX-25/8Mb RAM/200M HDD/NE2000 NIC
and I love it for that :)

>     It's also possible, for that matter, that your S3 Trio3D is
> flaking out, given your experience that building and booting
> 4.3-RELEASE didn't fix your problem.

No, it still runs as usual with Win95 (dual-boot home computer).
Well, now I remember that I used XFree86 3.3.5 with 4.3-RELEASE and
4.1.0 was built with 4.4-RC here. Perhaps, it is partial incompatibility
between syscons driver and X 4.1.0. But this is very strange: system runs
just fine until I try to use console graphics. It's enough just to 
switch from X to console, switch here to VESA_800x600, switch back
to 80x25 then switch to X and system hangs here, in 80x25 and
I cannot even break to kernel debugger. 
I suspect bugs in syscons' support for X.

Eugene Grosbein


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