Just a thought on the Matrox Gx00 and the abit boards. It was reported on
the matroxs users web site that the G400 did not seat well into the agp
slot on abit mother boards. You have to bend the metal strip on the card
to get it to seat right and/or use a washer between the case and the metal
strip where it screws in. If this isn't done the result is a short, as the
card is moved forward and the pins don't line up correctly, and the system
crashes. This may contribute to some of the problems. I know with the
bp6/enlight case/g400 this is an issue. I am not sure about other video
cards and this tight fit issue is an issue with them or not. I assume that
it very well could be. THe G400 fits fine in other MB. Also the G400 AGP needs to
be set to 256mb in the bios. Otherwise it can cause crashes at least in
the winX OSes. My G200 at home doesn't care how much AGP memory it has
though, so just a G400 issue.
hope that helps
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Chris Chiappa wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 05:37:11PM +0100, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
> > > Maybe, or maybe not. Someone on linux-kernel wrote that the G200
> > > framebuffer support might be buggy, and that looks suspiciously like
> > > my problem.
>
> > I'd be willing to bet 90% of the people experiencing lockups aren't using
> > the G200 framebuffer (I know I'm not)
>
> The number of people with Matrox Gx00 cards is significant, to the level
> that more than half the people have either an G200 or a G400.
>
> > The fact remains that for hundred of other motherboards out there,
> > Linux is completely stable - the BP6 is unique in the number of
> > people reporting problems. I think pointing fingers at other
> > hardware (ie the Matrox cards) is missing the point - maybe there's
> > some bad interaction between the BP6 and some other hardware, but it
> > still comes down to being a BP6 bug of some sort if no other
> > motherboard exhibit the same problem.
>
> Right.
>
> Roger.
>
>
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