Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Framebuffer overflow halts network (fwd)

[Leif N. <le...@ne...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Simmons" <jsi...@in...>
To: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <ge...@li...>
Cc: "Linux Frame Buffer Device Development"
<lin...@li...>; "Leif Neland" <le...@ne...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Framebuffer overflow halts network (fwd)



> > I have set up my primary work machine (i.e. it is mostly used as a
terminal
> > to connect to other servers) with framebuffer and have 64 lines*160
chars in
> > a pretty font.
> >
> > I ssh to other servers from this machine.
> >
> > If I do something which create a lot of output, eg. ls -lR /, the remote
> > machine sends more data than the framebuffer-terminal can handle. This
> > blocks the network on the terminal machine, which also is nameserver,
> > internal webserver and upsd server.
> >

> Which kernel are you using and whcih video card?

Debian-version: 3.0

Linux 2.2.19

From dmesg:

Detected 350798 kHz processor.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xdc000000, mapped to 0xd0000000, size 4096k
vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x8, linelength=1280, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5b6a
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

from /proc/pci

  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=4.Max
Lat=255.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc000000 [0xdc000000].

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