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. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
