Has anybody faced crashes while running virtual desktops only ? I'd had some trouble with my S3Virge GX2 card earlier, which I was running Xfree86 4.1.0 on. I had described some random crashes, mostly when a large app ran or when there was some fast scrolling. Well, It seems that its very stable now, everything seems to have been fixed. Trouble is, I had to do it using trial and error, and still don't know exactly how things have fallen into place. I'd compiled Xfree 4.1.0 from source, with -O3 -march=i686 optimization levels. I performs very well, though initially there was some trouble. But thanks a lot Kevin, your general suggestions were very useful. It seems that the crashes and the instability that I experienced using Xfree 4.1.0 and this particular card really takes place only while running a Virtual screen, which is much larger that the physical display. My system is 1024x786 but I ran on a resolution of 800x600, because of better refresh rates. So that involved the usual scrolling about, which I dint really mind, but interestingly enough, all crashes occured only while running 800x600 with a virtual 1024x786. I now run at 1024x786 as the actual resoltion. and, though I have to put up with a lower refresh rate, the crashes have stopped completely. The Xfree drivers for s3virge are working perfectly, at all times, and accelerated, glx-ified, with 'silken mouse', etc... MTRR support in the kernel I did add after the log file showed a warning about it, but I don't think it was the issue. I experienced hard crashes when running the server *without* a frame buffer console, which I don't understand at all. Anyway, one thing at a time, I do like the fb console, and now X works great. No problem at all. Thanks again, Kevin. > > Driving a ISA sound card tends to load the bus, and then lockups are > more likely given the accel trouble on GX2 (related to CPU speed/bus > bandwidth). > > > > Text console switching is one of the problems we see. It's sometimes > > > tough to get right. > > > > > > > When you say problems you see, do you mean for X in general, or while > > developing drivers for S3 cards? > > > > While developing drivers for S3 cards. > > > Now I run X accelerated again. In the shadow of my 'rescue reboot' script, > > and so far, no crash. > > I am now running on a kernel which I recompiled with MTRR support, > > simply because the Xfree86.0.log file had warnings about it. I also disabled > > PowerManagement in the XF86Config file, not to mention SilkenMouse... > > I put in vga=771 in my lilo.conf file to get a penguin logo, as I also > > included vesa fb support in the kernel. It ran ok, though once, funnily, my > > VT's > > crashed, but X still kept running! This happened only once, but I feel its > > got little to do with X? > > Did the become unreadable but you could still switch to them? That's > usually a driver restore bug for the VTs. > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
