Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:17:43 -0600 (CST) From: Curt Finch <curt@tkg.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: s3 virge hosedown Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.961219081714.40760A-100000@spycam.tkg.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961219004536.258Y-100000@localhost>
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thanx i figured it out it was a bug in the mouse driver causing a crash now fixed in freebsd source On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Curt Finch wrote: > > > > > First video: Super-VGA > > > > Chipset: S3 ViRGE (PCI Probed) > > > > Memory: 2048 Kbytes > > > > RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC > > > > (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) > > > > > > That's odd. > > > > Could you please be more specific? > > 8 bit DAC for a fancy video card? > > > > > XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System > > > > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100) > > > > Release Date: Oct 24 1996 > > > > Operating System: FreeBSD 2.1.5 > > > > Configured drivers: > > > > S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) > > > > s3_ViRGE > > > > > > > > The above is my freebsd configuration and my XFree86 config. > > > > xinit or startx crashes the machine immediatly after blackening > > > > the screen. > > > > > > Do you have SIO2 or sio3 enabled? > > > > > > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > > sio0: type 16550A > > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > > sio1: type 16550A > > sio2: disabled, not probed. > > sio3: disabled, not probed. > > > > i.e. no. Why would that be relevant? > > The upper serial ports stomp on ATI and some S3 implementations. It > doesn't take lightly to FreeBSD's probe of those ports. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > -- Curt Finch - The Kernel Group Inc. - curt@tkg.com - (512)413-8005 - Find memory bugs even in stripped AIX binaries with a 7 day - - FREE Evaluation of ZeroFault at ... http://www.TKG.com/ -
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