Hi,
I am having and have had problems running XF86s
xserver on a Matrox Mystique.
The problem is this :
Either the xerver is started by startx or xdm.
Xserver starts, I log in. I open and close
a couple of xterms. Fine. Do a bit of cd to
various directories. Fine.
I get advanced, I do ls in various directories
it might work or the xserver locks up denying
me keyboard and mouse and text stops scrolling
in xterms. After rebooting I find no errors in
/var/log section. X -probeonly returns nothing
strange. I implement isapnp for all things on my
soundcard. No help there.
A variation on the problem on the lockup
is that ls seems to work. I put it to test
by zcat /usr/doc/HOWTO/*
which most definitely kills my xserver.
Clarification, at lockups I see a still picture
of the X environment unable to leave with
ctrl alt F1 F2 etc
In debian stable 1.2 I noticed that
my programs kept running in such cases since
my harddrive was accessed and when rebooting
when harddrive finished. My output data files
are complete. I have not tried this with Debian2.0
I leave things be buy myself 2 other pci cards
(mpeg and a vodoo2 I run win95 with no problems).
Decide to upgrade bios in motherboard and mystique
to latest versions. I upgrade to Debian 2.0.
Nothing has changed. Right now I run a non-modified kernel
2.0.34 after having a 2.0.30 both custom and not.
What is wrong ? How can I trace the problem ?
X -probeonly, xdm-errors shows nothing of interest.
Anxiously waiting for som help.
Thanx so far for your interest.
Greetings from Stockholm !!
Pjo
Per Olsson
e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
p.s.
Below from /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
Multimedia video controller: 3Dfx Voodoo2 (rev 2).
Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb000000.
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Mystique (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbec000.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff000000.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe000000.
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
Multimedia video controller: Unknown vendor VXP524 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable.
Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffe00000.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xffa0.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82441FX Natoma (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
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