From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 06:17:52 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA23741 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 06:17:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from westlake.tkg.com (westlake.tkg.com [198.3.130.68]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA23736 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 06:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from spycam.tkg.com (spycam.tkg.com [198.3.130.106]) by westlake.tkg.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA26237; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:17:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:17:43 -0600 (CST) From: Curt Finch To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: s3 virge hosedown In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk thanx i figured it out it was a bug in the mouse driver causing a crash now fixed in freebsd source On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Curt Finch wrote: > > > > > First video: Super-VGA > > > > Chipset: S3 ViRGE (PCI Probed) > > > > Memory: 2048 Kbytes > > > > RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC > > > > (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) > > > > > > That's odd. > > > > Could you please be more specific? > > 8 bit DAC for a fancy video card? > > > > > XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System > > > > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100) > > > > Release Date: Oct 24 1996 > > > > Operating System: FreeBSD 2.1.5 > > > > Configured drivers: > > > > S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) > > > > s3_ViRGE > > > > > > > > The above is my freebsd configuration and my XFree86 config. > > > > xinit or startx crashes the machine immediatly after blackening > > > > the screen. > > > > > > Do you have SIO2 or sio3 enabled? > > > > > > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > > sio0: type 16550A > > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > > sio1: type 16550A > > sio2: disabled, not probed. > > sio3: disabled, not probed. > > > > i.e. no. Why would that be relevant? > > The upper serial ports stomp on ATI and some S3 implementations. It > doesn't take lightly to FreeBSD's probe of those ports. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > -- Curt Finch - The Kernel Group Inc. - curt@tkg.com - (512)413-8005 - Find memory bugs even in stripped AIX binaries with a 7 day - - FREE Evaluation of ZeroFault at ... http://www.TKG.com/ -