Hi all,
Until recently, I've had XFree86 from potato installed on my Toshiba
Satellite Pro 490XCDT, without issue. This laptop has a S3 ViRGE/MX
video chip, so I was using xserver-svga 3.3.6-11.
Today I upgraded the system to woody. xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-1 was
installed.
After configuring and st
Kevin,
> As far as XFree86 is concerned, you don't need to submit any more than
> this. I've forwarded your message to the private ViRGE mailing list,
> we'll see if anyone with a ViRGE MX can take a look. Will you be taking
> the log files down soon?
Thanks for your attention. The log files wi
> Great! What kind of console are you running? Is it a text or graphical
> console (vesafb or other)?
vesafb mostly, but I've been running all the tests in both, just to see
if it makes a difference. It hasn't.
> Option "pci_burst"
>
> Does that help?
No change.
> I've also put up another te
> Okay, that rules out a couple obvious possibilities. I've put up a
> purely test version on my page (ver 1.6.2) which does incremental
> startup, pausing for a couple seconds at various points in the init.
> sequence. Would you give it a try and post or mail me the log? Wait
> about 30 seconds
> There's a new version up on my web page (ver 1.6.3). It's another
> incremental start version which _will_ show a difference in the log. (I
> promise!) Would you try it out? It takes a little longer to start
> fully, ~4 seconds, so allow 30-35 total.
Log files are up, I've included log files
> I've but up another version of the MX test driver. It's at
> http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~kbrosius/virge.html as usual. Let me
> know if this improves things. I've removed some initialization added
> for GX2 and Xv which may be causing the screen corruption you saw with
> the last test c
hat both ran allright (apart from the above problems),
but after exiting from 800x600,the console display was completely blank
except for the pointer. The keyboard still responded, so I was able to
reboot.
Regards,
Rob.
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Robert Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTE
> http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~kbrosius/s3virge_drv.402+_166.gz
> Nothing but a log needed for this one.
Done. Logfile is at:
http://nauseum.org/x4-virge/XFree86.0.log.s3virge_drv.402+_166
Regards,
Rob.
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down the problem though.
Any help would be appreciated.
TIA,
Rob.
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Robert Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I suggest running dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86, and specifying
> more video RAM for use by the video chip. 16MB sounds like a lot, but 3D
> accelerate cards are astounding memory hogs, which is why you ssee them
> shipping with 32 and even 64 megs of RAM these days.
Well how about tha
Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.4+4
Severity: important
After an upgrade yesterday X does not start and leaves the system in an
unusable state (machine still running, but screen blank and keyboard
unresponsive).
-- Package-specific info:
/var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist.
/var/lib/x11/X.
Hi all,
Until recently, I've had XFree86 from potato installed on my Toshiba
Satellite Pro 490XCDT, without issue. This laptop has a S3 ViRGE/MX
video chip, so I was using xserver-svga 3.3.6-11.
Today I upgraded the system to woody. xserver-xfree86 4.0.2-1 was
installed.
After configuring and s
Kevin,
> As far as XFree86 is concerned, you don't need to submit any more than
> this. I've forwarded your message to the private ViRGE mailing list,
> we'll see if anyone with a ViRGE MX can take a look. Will you be taking
> the log files down soon?
Thanks for your attention. The log files w
> Great! What kind of console are you running? Is it a text or graphical
> console (vesafb or other)?
vesafb mostly, but I've been running all the tests in both, just to see
if it makes a difference. It hasn't.
> Option "pci_burst"
>
> Does that help?
No change.
> I've also put up another t
> Okay, that rules out a couple obvious possibilities. I've put up a
> purely test version on my page (ver 1.6.2) which does incremental
> startup, pausing for a couple seconds at various points in the init.
> sequence. Would you give it a try and post or mail me the log? Wait
> about 30 second
> There's a new version up on my web page (ver 1.6.3). It's another
> incremental start version which _will_ show a difference in the log. (I
> promise!) Would you try it out? It takes a little longer to start
> fully, ~4 seconds, so allow 30-35 total.
Log files are up, I've included log file
> I've but up another version of the MX test driver. It's at
> http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~kbrosius/virge.html as usual. Let me
> know if this improves things. I've removed some initialization added
> for GX2 and Xv which may be causing the screen corruption you saw with
> the last test
hat both ran allright (apart from the above problems),
but after exiting from 800x600,the console display was completely blank
except for the pointer. The keyboard still responded, so I was able to
reboot.
Regards,
Rob.
--
Robert Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
1024D/FC18E6C26FBF 098A A3F2 A728 490F 7743 59BD 7767 FC18 E6C2
PGP signature
> http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~kbrosius/s3virge_drv.402+_166.gz
> Nothing but a log needed for this one.
Done. Logfile is at:
http://nauseum.org/x4-virge/XFree86.0.log.s3virge_drv.402+_166
Regards,
Rob.
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track down the problem though.
Any help would be appreciated.
TIA,
Rob.
--
Robert Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
1024D/FC18E6C26FBF 098A A3F2 A728 490F 7743 59BD 7767 FC18 E6C2
PGP signature
> I suggest running dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86, and specifying
> more video RAM for use by the video chip. 16MB sounds like a lot, but 3D
> accelerate cards are astounding memory hogs, which is why you ssee them
> shipping with 32 and even 64 megs of RAM these days.
Well how about th
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