On 11 Sep 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > 3) Bad resource arbitration in the motherboard bios (conflicts, overlaps).
>
> How do I find that ? Is there some doc somewhere about how to hunt such
> conflicts ?
>
Usually XFree86's verbose output would complain about overlaps.
There's always the possibliltiy of some other broken card in the
system that reports its needs incorrectly (remember the S3 968)
and a correctly operating bios leaving it overlapping something
else. But I think most of those types of problems would be
well known and already worked around in the kernel, etc... And
we're really grasping at straws at that point.
Do you have alot of power consumption in your system? How
many Watts can the power supply provide? Can you hear phenomenon
like your fans sounding like their RPMs are dropping when you
do cpu or graphics intensive tasks? Even if the power supply
itself is OK, it could be a regulation problem on the board.
Have you tried snipping out the "freetype" or "xtt" modules
so that the TrueType font renders don't get used? There have
been fatal bugs in those in the past. I think they are all
fixed by now though.
Mark.
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