Joao Vieira wrote: >Don`t take me wrong, but have you tried to use a # >monitor video card? > I have a LAN, so I set the BIOS not to complain, then removed my sound and video cards physically. I booted it up, then rlogged into the system, and did modprobe. It still hangs, no change.
I do not think it is a display problem. after modprobe, It does not answer to ping, and existing network connections hang. >I think I experienced something similar a few weeks >ago after I made my first Linux install:) using a S3 >agp card. After reinstalling several times and making >sure I was not doing nothing wrong, I decided to try >another video card (NVidia 16 mg) and since then >everything has been running smoothly...I found that >only some versions of the x server support hardware >acceleration and not all the video cards support this >feature, so this could be your starting point. > >I hope that helps > >Joao >--- Peter Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I hope someone can point me in the direction of some >>help. The problem >>is easy to reproduce, but I have no error messages, >>just the system >>locks up solid (no oops!) I have SGI KDB installed >>and functional but it >>does not come up when the hang occurs either. >> >>Versions: >> started with redhat 7.3 standard kernel >>(2.4.18++, with bttv 0.7.xxx) >> then tried 2.4.19 linus tree with v4l2 & >>bttv-0.8.45... no change. >> >>I started editing the bttv driver. and noticed that >>it hangs in the file >>bttv-driver.c in the init_bt848 routine at the line >>which does >>"btwrite(val,BT848_E_SCLOOP);" If I comment out the >>line, it will hang >>on the next line, If I comment that one, it will >>hang on the one after >>that, etc... >> >>These lines to write to registers on the ATI TV >>Wonder Card (PCI id >>00:09.0 which has a BT878A chip on it.) It seems >>able to do a couple of >>writes and then hang. >> >>grumpy% lspci >>00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. >>VT82C693A/694x [Apollo >>PRO133x] (rev c2) >>00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. >>VT82C598/694x [Apollo >>MVP3/Pro133x AGP] >>00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 >>ISA [Mobile South] >>(rev 12) >>00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus >>Master IDE (rev 06) >>00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB >>(rev 08) >>00:04.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 >>Power Management >>(rev 20) >>00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree >>Corporation Bt878 Video >>Capture (rev 11) >>00:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation >>Bt878 Audio Capture >>(rev 11) >>00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs >>SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) >>00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB >>Live! MIDI/Game Port >>(rev 08) >>00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B >>100BaseTX [Cyclone] >>(rev 30) >>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, >>Inc. MGA G400 AGP >>(rev 04) >>grumpy% >> >>I would appreciate any ideas on how to proceed, or >>pointers to people >>who might be willing to help. >> >>Thank you. >> >>Peter >> >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Video4linux-list mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! >http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >Video4linux-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
