Here's an email I sent to Xpert about a problem I am having with the tdfx driver - Michel D�nzer was nice enough to suggest that I might get some help on this list... any ideas? Thanks! On Fri, 2001-11-02, Michel D�nzer said: >On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 22:09, Manuel McLure wrote: >> I have been having a problem with the tdfx server in 4.1.0 (and with the >> server in the latest DRI trunk) - on occasion changing the resolution >> (either through Ctrl+Alt++/- or through some app changing the resolution) >> causes the server to crash. This is an occasional occurrence, and I have >> found it impossible to reproduce this when I want to. XFree86.0.log shows >> nothing. After the crash the text console or the framebuffer >> console )whichever I am using) will be corrupted and I need to reboot to fix >> them, although X will restart and display correctly (and probably will *not* >> crash again if I change resolutions). Other than occasionally crashing when >> changing resolutions, I find the server rock-solid. > >I suspect the tdfx function(s) for changing modes don't take the DRI >hardware lock. See recent discussion about this for the mach64 driver on >the dri-devel list. You might want to bring it up there.
-- Manuel A. McLure - Unify Corp. Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other peoples needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry. _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
