On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, David Hill wrote: > I just noticed (while looking at /var/log/messages) that when I boot > Linux (on a dual P3 500 with onboard scsi controllers) there is absolutely NO > PROBLEMS. XDM starts with the login windows and everything looks fine. > As soon as I type the username/password and login Xfree/KDE, there is a lot > of "Parity Errors observed". Could the problem be in the Linux/Ati rage 128 > drivers for X ? > What I don't understand is that XDM is using Xfree. So why the problem is > occuring only when XDM gives the control to Xfree/KDE? > I'm not pretty sure of the location of the problem, but it's pretty weird. > There is PCI parity errors until I press "ENTER" in the XDM login window. > Anything else on the computer will work just fine. > Before entering the window manager or quitting XDM or else, I can kill -9, > ctrl-alt-backspace, /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm restart anytime and there is no > problem. I can listen to my mp3s, do ANYTHING with the computer... > but as I said earlier, as soon as I login using XDM, or else, type startx, it > starts making noise/bad parity on the scsi controler. > I think it could be an IRQ problem, but the point is that the parity error > messages are only happening (and wont quit until I restart the computer) when > I use Xfree... That's plausible, I suppose. But, first, let's see if the parity errors persists with Option "NoAccel" in your XF86Config's device section. This'll slow things down considerably, of course, but would shed light on the problem. Thanks. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
