On Son, 2002-01-27 at 15:43, Mathieu Perrin wrote: > On 27 Jan 2002, Michel D�nzer wrote: > > > Does the whole box freeze, or can you still move the mouse, ssh in and > > kill the X client and/or server? If the former, I wonder if this could > > be related to the infamous 'Athlon bug'? > > Well, If I use drivers from GATOS, when I play fullscreen, the monitor > goes out of frequence, but i can still ssh the box and reboot. If I use > drivers from X' source, the box freeze when i move the mouse on the > window, I can still ssh the box and reboot ( If I kill X, the screen is > not refreshed )
You should be able to restart X, but you won't get the console back unless you use a real framebuffer device or reboot. Could you please also try booting the kernel with mem=nopentium, which is a workaround for the problem related to Athlon speculative writes and AGP GART cache coherency, to see if that's related? -- 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
