Greetings,

I've got the Debian pre-release of X 4.2 running on my Toshiba 1800 which
is otherwise running Debian woody.

It's mostly OK, but has crashed a couple of times.  The most recent one
(just now :-|) was when running gtv (i.e. smpeg) and with linux 2.2.21
booted (linux is configured with vesafb and X with the trident driver).

The crash resulted in a ~640x480 or 800x600 centred green screen with
various dotted vertical lines and a blue border around that.  OK,
a picture's worth a thousand words?  Camera snapshots are at:

http://www.planet.net.au/~neale/images/t1800-20020708.jpg  (~64kB)
http://www.planet.net.au/~neale/images/t1800-20020708-s.jpg  (~15kB)

AFAICT, the crash locked the machine hard - no network access (nor ping
responses) either - except for the function ("Fn") key still lit its
indicator (but then that stopped too - full buffer?).  So recovery was by
power-cycling.

lspci -v includes:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems: Unknown device
8820 (rev 82) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8, IRQ 11
        Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Memory at fbc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Memory at f7ff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [90] Power Management version 2

XFree86 log is at
http://www.planet.net.au/~neale/temp/t1800-20020708-log.gz (~5k, ungzips
to ~53k) - doesn't show anything about the crash (not surprising for a
hard lock?).

Any suggestions on where to go from here?

Am I correct in recalling that there's a newer (experimental?) trident
driver?  If so, is it likely to be relevant here?

Speaking of drivers, is there any hope of ever getting acceleration (or,
gee wiz, TV-out) for this beastie?

Thanks,
Neale.

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