Re: Bizarre apparent X11-hardware interaction

Alessandro Suardi (asuardi@uninetcom.it)
Thu, 09 Jan 1997 22:56:27 +0100

Jason Burrell wrote:
>
> I've run into an extremely bizarre problem that I figure has to be
> kernel->hardware interaction related.
>
> When running X11, some applications will lock the entire machine hard,
> requiring me to go for the Big Switch(tm). I've upgraded parts of my
> system so that the only things that remain in common are the soundcard
> (AWE32 PnP), the drives, and my modem.
>
> The kernel reports my video card as:
>
> Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5430 (rev 76).
> Fast devsel. IRQ 11.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc000000.
>
> I've also used another Cirrus card, which had the same problem. I
> seriously doubt it's the video card.
>

Hmm, your output is my envy, mine looks older (and slower):

Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5430 (rev 34).
Medium devsel. IRQ 12.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000.

but it always worked on my P100/40MB RAM with XFree86 3.1.2 and
keeps working now under XFree86 3.2. I don't have a soundcard...

Cheers,

--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>

Linux kernel-2.1.20 libc-5.4.17 gcc-2.7.2.1 binutils-2.7.0.3