Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:38:38 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bt848 Missing frames fix Message-ID: <19970416203838.49588@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199704170018.RAA00426@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Wed, Apr 16, 1997 at 05:18:36PM -0700 References: <19970416181855.55604@ct.picker.com> <199704170018.RAA00426@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty: |As for general driver stability I use the driver here every day must |say to watch TV 8) Speaking of stability, that was actually going to be my next question. Over the past few days, I've noticed 3 or 4 times when I'm typing around in my XTerm with the TV going, I'll see a bit of font corruption in the text that's being refreshed at that time and less than a second later, the X server and system is completely locked. Ctrl-Bksp, Ctrl-Alt-Del, mouse, all locked -- though the video keeps right on cooking, and the video card keeps right on blasting the updated video. So the Wincast card, video refresh, and PCI-to-PCI DMA sure isn't dead, but the X server (at least) seems to be. Is just leaving the console open, trying to keep it in the viewport of my desktop, and hoping for some useful messages will appear the best course? Or is there some other option I might try that might stand a shot of triggering a fault or kernel panic -- generating some useful core dump -- that I can try. Any way to hard-wire a key to panic the kernel? Any other suggestions for tracking this? Randall
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