On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, James Hawtin wrote:

> PCG-C1VFK Sony Vaio Picture book
> XFree86 version: 4.2.99.1
> 3Com 3CCFE575BT Cyclone CardBus
> 
> If the network card is inserted before starting X, my laptop either
> freezes up or the network card starts giving lots of PCI errors, (about 20
> a second ;-) interesting the network card is still working, just getting
> lots of errors. If however the network card is inserted after X has been
> started, everything works fine, its just qa bit of a pain as I have to
> remove the card every time I boot!
> 
> There seems to be something in the X boot sequence that is causing
> problems, hoping to isolate the problem in the scanning code I though I
> would try scanpci however that does not kill it :-(

I have a similar problem with my VAIO PCG-F707 (which has a neomagic 
NM2230 graphics chip), but it happens when I stop X.
I've had it with CVS builds since about 1st May.

Please see
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-May/017995.html
which mentions that a fix is in progress, and notes that CVS builds
are not guaranteed to be reliable.
 
-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

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