On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Stig S�rensen wrote:

> Wow, I see that MDK8.2b2 uses a vga driver for XFree86-4.2 on my ppc6500/250. I 
>don't even want to know how this is possible, but I like it :-)
> This might have fixed my major problem with the 6500/250, frequent lockups in X 
>using fbdev or the ati driver. I just have one problem with the vga driver, it won't 
>shut down properly, it just hangs with a black screen (machine still accepts ssh 
>connections, so it's not dead). Does anybody know how to fix this?
> 
> /Stig
> 
> 
> 

It really is using vga? fbdev gets setup on my 7600. There's a vga entry
in the config, but it normally doesn't get used.  There were reports of
similar lockups leaving X sometime back with ati, which ended up being a
kernel driver issue.

Stew Benedict

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