Re: less locking up console

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 08:01:53 EST


> I wonder if the orginal poster is using fbdev. I've seen lots of strange
> little problems like this with fbdev.

Nope. Their is no S3Trio fbdev driver for the intel platform. Still sounds
like a latency issue.

> > >Configuration is a pentium 166 with PCI, video-card is an S3 Trio 64 V+
> > >(PCI). The box gets totally locked up, no alt-sysrq, no console switching.
> > >The only way to get out is hitting the reset button.

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

James Simmons [jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org] ____/|
fbdev/console/gfx developer \ o.O|
http://www.linux-fbdev.org =(_)=
http://linuxgfx.sourceforge.net U
http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net

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