From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 1 19:59:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-168.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4139837B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 19:59:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein (topperwein [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB23x9N78441 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:59:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:59:04 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: X and non-X graphics in 4.4-STABLE: system hangs. In-Reply-To: <20011201131113.A493@twincat.vladsempire.net> Message-ID: <20011201225705.M78365-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:28:16AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:30:21PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > > > I have found a method to hang recent 4.4-STABLE and this is > > > 100% reproducable with my hardware. > > > > There is also much simplier way to demonstrate this: > > > > 1. Build kernel with options VESA and options SC_PIXEL_MODE. > > 2. boot and login at vty0 (no need to login as root) > > 3. vidcontrol VESA_800x600 > > 4. swutdown -r +2 # to make shure that kernel will be dead too > > 4. startx > > 5. make shure that X started and switch to vty0 > > 6. switch back to X and system hangs forever, it will not reboot. > > > > Anybody with XFree 4.1.0 and S3 Trio 3D can confirm this? > > This becames really annoying. > > I'm using a S3 Virge/DX 86C375 as a secondary adapter in X. Lately > about half the time when I start X from the console it completely > hangs my system. I am not using VESA console modes. I'm running > -STABLE from a couple of days ago, but I was experiencing this before > that. Also using XFree 4.1.0_6 I know that there are people out there doing this on a shoestring budget and all, but S3 video chipsets are, in my experience, crap. If you spend $40 US or so on even an old video board such as an ATI Rage Pro, these problems will most likely vanish. You can probably get a decent video board for even less than that. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message