Thanks for the tips. It looks like upgrading to 4.2.0 (and using the new s3virge driver) seems to have done the trick (so far). One thing I did notice is that "XF86Setup" terms with a segfault. Looks like a database is corrupt? blackjack:~# XF86Setup Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry * Generic VGA compatible (line 27). Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry * Generic VESA compatible (line 31). Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry * Unsupported VGA compatible (line 35). Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry Cirrus Logic GD542x (line 157). Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry S3 864 (generic) (line 554). Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry S3 Trio64 (generic) (line 627). Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry S3 Trio64V+ (generic) (line 636). Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry S3 Trio64V2 (generic) (line 797). Segmentation fault blackjack:~# At 08:44 AM 6/3/2002 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >Eric N. Valor wrote: > > I've tried stepping through the archives, but the lack of a search > > engine means that I have to manually parse 80+ megs of information > > (this takes a human quite a long time). > >Have you tried using something like google to search through the >archives ? I've found that works quite well. > > > For more information, the card is using the S3 Virge/GX2 chip. > > > I have a Number Nine Reality 334 (4mb, AGP) which I'm trying to run with > > Debian (Woody). I've set the resolution to 1024x768 at 16bpp. Everything > > seems to work fine except when I try to pop open an Xterminal. At that > > point, XF86_SVGA goes to 98% CPU utilization (I'm on a dual-850 PIII) and > > the whole system locks up. After almost a minute it comes back, but doing > > anything like "ls /etc" causes the same behavior. > > > > Other windows, such as a web browser, are not affected in this way. > > > > When I set the color depth to 8bpp everything seems OK, but the color > > definition is pretty crappy. This card, when used in a Windoze box, > can do > > 1024x768 at 16 all day long. Am I really stuck at 256 colors? > > > > Nothing is thrown in the logs to indicate an error. > >Delays like that can happen when the disk or memory is full, I take it >that isn't the case here. Admittedly that doesn't sound likely if it >works in 8bit. > >XF86_SVGA is from XFree86 version 3. >Have you tried using the s3virge driver in XFree86 version 4 ? > >-- >Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge >A.C.Aitchison@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna > > > >_______________________________________________ >Xpert mailing list >Xpert@XFree86.Org >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- Eric N. Valor ericv@cruzio.com PGP Key 2048/1024 227B04CB Key Fingerprint = 766C CA15 0FFF E54B 2FEE C7D7 0F87 3AFB 227B 04CB : This Space Intentionally Left Blank :
