Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and CyberstormPPC

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

Giorgio Terzi wrote:
> Alle 12:31, sabato 12 ottobre 2002, schneider ha scritto:
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 
> I think that the problem, in my case, was some X interactions. This because 
> excluding step by step every possible source of  problems (e.g. daemons like 
> named etc) i have found that without X, using internet with, for example, 
> ftp, cvs, and so on, none bug appeared.
> To say the true i haven't still stressed a lot the machine after the SCSI  
> drive migration, but now i haven't found bugs during startup.
> 
> Thinking better i had problems during startup! But this was an hardware 
> problem : when in my Cyberstorm was broken  the PPC MPU. 
> The symptoms was that 68000 side was perfectly working but in the PPC 
> side during Linux init the machine crashed. In the beginning only sometimes
> but at the end everytime. I hope this is not your case.

Well, without the SCSI driver everything works fine... without any 
crash. It´s just the damn scsi ... same problem for the buildin a4000t 
or the uw csppc scsi.


> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> Regards
> 
> 	Giorgio
>