Messages in this thread | | | Subject | crash in vesafb? | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:48:26 -0500 | From | Justin Hahn <> |
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Arvind Sankar wrote: > I installed 2.2.0pre9 with vesa framebuffer support enabled. If I boot with > ypan/ywrap options, the machine crashes after some time. Actually, most of {SNIP} > have an ATI Mach64 card (Xpert98). I haven't tried the Mach64 fb too much, {SNIP} > some time, and often if I am scrolling screen-by-screen using less (say a man > page). Couple of times it also happened while in vi. There were no error > messages or OOPS, so can't help there. {SNIP}
Just as an additional I'm getting the same behavior, and have since sometime in the 2.1.12x series. I'm using the Xpert@play card from ATI (Mach64 Rage something or other). Happens when scrolling in text console. I've also had this occur during boot when doing some particularly long and error full fsck's. No oops is produced in logs, and the screen is useless. Switching back to X (if it's running) puts some wierd garbage on the screen and a large rectangle that moves with the mouse.
Personally I'd chalked it up to wierd hardware issues, but sounds like it's not an isolated incident.
----------------------------------------------- Justin Hahn <jehahn@raven.bu.edu> Systems Administrator Boston University SPI Lab -----------------------------------------------
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