I've checked this problem on my IBM TP235 which has CT65555, and it seems that the offending part is vgaHWRestore() called from chipsRestore() in ct_driver.c
I already reported this to chips list in XFree86, and am waiting for answer from chips driver developers. ISHIKAWA wrote that the current CVS source has the same problem on [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, so this is the upstream problem, not the Debian specific. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07 Nov 2000 15:00:39 -0500, Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001107 09:39]: > > > My machine also freezes completely when I try the new X. I have the > > > same card, the CT65555, in my Transmonde laptop, and the machine dies > > > when I run startx or "/etc/init.d/xdm start". > Any other ideas? In case it's relevant, I'm running the 2.4.0-test5 > kernel. I'm running 2.2.17, and the problem arises on my system. So the kernel version is irrelevant, I think. > Also, is there a good way to avoid all the fsck's I've been doing > over the past 24 hours? I have a little loop that sync's the disk, > but booting is still slow. Can my root partition be mounted readonly > while working on X? I want to know if this is possible, too. -- Taketoshi Sano: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
