Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and CyberstormPPC

[schneider <sch...@te...>]

Giorgio Terzi wrote:
> Alle 14:50, venerdì 11 ottobre 2002, Michel Dänzer ha scritto:
> 
> 
>>Will these modifications also work with older firmware or whatever makes
>>the difference?
> 
> 
> Oops, you're right, i haven't tried this, i will try it (downgrading the 
> firmware) this weekend. 
> Test results will follow.
> 
> 
>>>The warbled text problem i signaled succedes only in the X text windows
>>>as Xterm or Mozilla and so on. I think this is a driver's limitation
>>>because with 1024x768x16 resolution this succedes only when the machine
>>>is very stressed but with 1152x864x16 and over this succedes everytime i
>>>open a window. With these high resolutions it warbles also the graphics.
>>
>>Sounds like bus contention and/or synchronization problems in the 2D
>>acceleration code.
> 
> 
> I think that what you are saying is also (or something near) the reason
> why the framebuffer crashes after a vterm exchange from X .
> Is it possible that X is not signalled to release its resources and go to 
> sleep ?
> The few times that i am able to exchange vterms, X is completely killed 
> (also its child tasks) by the system and the Xdm task that remains alive
> is not able to re-open another X task. 
> I can test it, could you suggest me where to put the hands :-) ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> 	Giorgio
> 
> Post Scriptum.
> In my last mail i forgotten to say that after the migration of my Linux 
> partitions from IDE to SCSI hdisks, a strange bug seems disappeared:
> Sometimes, when connected to internet and using X, something
> hanged the X task or the whole machine. Now seems solved...
> (I cross my fingers... :-) ).

Seems the same problem like i have.
Btw: i still have problems with it, sometime it even crashes during init 
of the scsi disks! Sometimes later... bug is still present.

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