On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:37:31PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:09:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Please upgrade to v10; I think there is something in xfree86-common that > > err, addresses your bug report. > > Ok, thanks for helping me find the bug report instructions. > > Since this feels like a packaging problem (behavior changed between > v5 and v9), and since you did me the favor of forwarding the > report to debian-x, I'm going to presume that it most likely is > a packaging problem. Well, I doubt it, because I've been tracking bleeding edge CVS and the Permedia3 driver is one of the things that's been hacked on since v5. I suggest trying to cook up a bug report for upstream, including: 1) your XF86Config 2) /var/log/XFree86.0.log 3) anything else you can think of > If anyone can point me at copies of v6, v7, and v8, I'd be happy to > try each, in turn, to see at what point the problem starts happening. I don't have copies of them, and I doubt anyone's archiving them. > Otherwise, the only clues I can think of are: > > [1] I've had my permedia act up like this (blanking display entirely, > need to reboot to restore), occasionally, before. My impression was that > this was a race condition, where I was switching consoles while X was in > the middle of configuring my card. [But it's never been this consistent.] Probably a driver bug. > [2] In xdm.log, the odd message: > xdm error (pid 524): SetPerClientControls failed > > I don't think I've seen this error message before. I don't know what it means either. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@debian.org | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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