Bill, I don't know if my experience is of any help. But here it is anyways. I am using a NS Geode MegiaGX chipset, running 3.3.6. When running a kernel configured for P2's it would regularly crash on exiting X when set to depth of 16. Although 8bit depth would exit and restart with no problem. I don't know all the changes between kernel configurations, but both were linux 2.2.17 compiled by me, the first was set for P2's, now I am using 5x86.
When the machine would crash it was hard! No ethernet in or out, and no other I/O (my machines have hardware digital I/O for machine control) all dead. Only a cold boot (since I don't have a reset sw) would wake them. Yes, it was consistent across different machines with same model of board. I have no idea if this info relates, but I felt like sharing. Blaine Lee Bill Wraith wrote: > Here are the logs for the two cases. However, nothing in there jumped out as obvious >to me. I don't > know if there are some options that should be tried. I've been reading that there >are clocks that may > need to be specified for "text mode", but there is no info I could find doing >searches on the net > about what clock options or what values need to be set, even if that is the problem. >I've tried > setting "Nopm" "on" and not using the "dpms" option, which I thought may somehow >have something to do > w/it. I noticed that some toshiba laptop sites seem to set the "NoPM" to "on", maybe >because the > power management features may not be compatible in these vintage '98 laptops. I've >also read about a > package that will set svga text modes, but it wasn't at all clear whether this would >help, and it's a > whole additional effort and research. So, I guess I'm still looking for some >guidance on what would > really be worth trying. I also tried passing vga=ask to the kernel in grub.conf, but >that didn't seem > to help either. > > Thanks for any further insight o ideas. > > Bill _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
