On 2004-12-07 Christian Ospelkaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 > Severity: important
> On my system with onboard i865, I see regular crahses when the screen > blanks while I am logged in. The xserver log file contains the > I830WaitLpRing() > error message afterwards. The symptoms seem to be the same as in > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09649.html [...] *Browsing* through this thread on marc.theaimsgroup <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86&m=106528615425180&w=2> I only found two interesting pieces of information * http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86&m=106529163429141&w=2 | Try a recent development snapshot version. Most reports I've seen | of this type of problem have been fixed there. The last known | cause of this problem (and there have been several) was fixed after | 4.3.0 was released. * David Dawes in [Paranoia spoilerspace, because of possible license issues, the actual one line patch is rot13ed, too] S P O I L E R S P O I L E R S P O I L E R S P O I L E R S P O I L E R S P O I L E R S P O I L E R http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86&m=106641532832300&w=2 It just occurred to me where I had seen this type of black screen problem before. It happens when using the "vesa" driver with an 845G. We work around this in the i810 driver by remembering the initial video mode and simply re-initialising it when exiting/VT switching instead of using the VBE save/restore mechanism. This workaround is only actived for 845G hardware. [patch rot13ed] Lbh pbhyq gel ranoyvat vg sbe nyy uneqjner ol punatvat guvf yvar va v830_qevire.p sebz: vs (!V845T_IOR_JBEXNEBHAQ || !VF_845T(cV830)) { gb: vs (!V845T_IOR_JBEXNEBHAQ) { There was no answer to this posting, neither about success nor failure with this change. cu andreas -- "See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf, fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha. Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash"
