From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 2 09:04:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13079 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:04:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles248.castles.com [208.214.165.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13056; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03554; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:00:28 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809020900.JAA03554@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Thomas David Rivers cc: mike@smith.net.au, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freeze with 2.2CAM-19980716-SNAP + XF863323 + PII + S3V In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 08:45:38 -0400." <199809021245.IAA02114@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 09:00:27 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Symptom: > > > > > > When running X under certain conditions > > > (must be X server supporting S3V chipset accel., like XF86_SVGA, > > > or XF86_S3V), and with certain programs, the machine will freeze > > > instantly (no panic, nada). > > > > I have been seeing the same symptoms with an S3V system for a long time > > (6+ months); by varying the options to the S3 server and the system PCI > > timings I can alter the 'ease of freeze', but it's always possible. > > Swapping console <-> X and popping up a twm menu will both do it. > > > > Either it's a bug in the S3V code, or the hardware itself (I have had > > occasional lockups on that system with other operating systems as well). > > > > I don't believe it's specific to the S3V code, as I get the exact > same symptoms with the normal SVGA server (on a Matrox Millenium II card.) Which "exact same symptoms"? Specifically, can you just pop up a twm menu 3 or 4 times and have the system freeze? > Is your kernel/system set up to do a savecore? Perhaps that would > be enlightening... It'd only be enlightening if I had a serial console on the system, and even then I'm not convinced the system is responding to interrupts at that point so I may well not be able to do anything about it then. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message