Re: X11 freezes

[markm@student.unsw.edu.au]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:11:06AM +1000, Chris Ison wrote:
> XF86_SVGA and XSiS_SVGA (from sis site) both have this problem
> 
> Video Card: SiS6326 4mb

I have a m/b with a sis 5?97/98 video card and I suspect that sis make
crap onboard video controllers. On this computer w98 would keep dying
with segfaults in gdi.exe - which i believe were video related. In one
resolution mode, it would crash when using the scroll bar, in another
resolution mode it would crash when expanding directories with the
little '+'. When I had debian running on this computer previously, when
you went to 1024x768 vertical 'noise' lines randomly appear on the
screen.

The fact that they are pushing XSiS_SVGA seems to indicate they may be 
trying to work around h/w limitations. 

I have only recently put woody on my sis'ed computer and will try to
reproduce what you mentioned. However, we both may end up having to 
get a propper pci card.

hth,
mark.