Re: Preparing for the freeze (was: Obsolete packages in main/oldlibs)
In message "Preparing for the freeze (was: Obsolete packages in main/oldlibs)", you write:
> => > The biggest problems I see are:
> => >
> => > - XF86_SVGA server locking the whole system with Millenium cards.
> =>
> => I only have this problem when trying to do 24 bits, 16 bits works OK (if
> => you avoid things like xcrystal :-).
>
> You should avoid zooming in Xdvi as well.
XF86_SVGA and XF86_S3V with ViRGE cards reliably lock up the system at
anything more than 8bpp. Netscape sometimes causes lockups even with
8bpp; this seems to be related to flashing "server-push" crap. The
lockups are usually preceeded by a lot of PCI errors in the syslog. I
assume it's a 64 bit pointer/32 bit int conversion problem. Is it worth
filing a bug report with XFree86? I presume they're already aware of it.
Another argument in favour of KGI.
Ian Willmott
Northern Telecom
Ottawa Ontario Canada
willmott@nortel.ca.nospam.org (remove everything after 'ca' to reply)
Reply to: