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DateFri, 10 Jan 1997 13:21:13 -0600 (CST)
FromJason Burrell <>
SubjectRe: Bizarre apparent X11-hardware interaction
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Jason Burrell wrote:

> When running X11, some applications will lock the entire machine hard,
> requiring me to go for the Big Switch(tm). I've upgraded parts of my
> system so that the only things that remain in common are the soundcard
> (AWE32 PnP), the drives, and my modem.
> 
>   Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
>     VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5430 (rev 76).
>       Fast devsel.  IRQ 11.
>       Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc000000.

I stumbled across something which _appears_ to have fixed the problem. The
server wasn't using linear addressing, because I hadn't turned it on. Once
I turned on linear addressing, I was able to specify a CLGD 5430 and
haven't had any crashes since. Strange. Some bug in the BIOS-access code?

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