On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, F. Heitkamp wrote:
> Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, F. Heitkamp wrote:
> >
> >>I've pulled the latest CVS xfree86 and compiled it on my G4 533 dual
> >>Snakebite. I am also using the latest benh kernel. My Mac has the
> >>GForce 2MX card (I think.). I've gotten X to work with the nv driver but it
> >>usually crashes after a few minutes. Once it crashed when I tried to send
> >>a mail message from Mozilla. The last crash happened when I was using
> >>gnome and had a couple terminals open. I am currious as to what kind of
> >>luck others are having? BTW I am using debian unstable.
> >>
> >
> > It worked for me but I haven't done a whole lot of testing on
> >it. I doubt the crashes are "nv" driver specific. I saw problems
> >with things like starting multiple servers and switching VTs and
> >stuff like that. But I believe those are console driver bugs.
> >If you crashed running Mozilla I'd be more suspicious of the
> >font renders (freetype, etc...) or the font server, if you are
> >running one.
> >
> When I use my PC (running Linux) as an X terminal, to log into the Mac,
> I am able to
> work for hours with no crashes. Doesn't this raise suspicion that the
> problem is in the
> nv driver?
No. Like I said, I'd be more suspicious of the font render or
font server. I don't see that there's anything significantly
different between the x86 and PPC versions of the "nv" driver.
There's just some register changes programming big endian
primitives rather than little endian ones, and those obviously
work or it wouldn't be rendering. I never saw any crashes,
but I wasn't using a font server and didn't have the freetype
module installed.
You said it crashed. Do you mean it segfaulted? Do you have
a stack trace?
Mark.
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