On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:48:26AM -0500, Justin Hahn wrote:
> 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. 

Disable the vesa driver (video=vesa:off) and use the atyfb driver instead. To
change the video mode from the default (640x480x8) I edited atyfb.c and changed
the default_var structure's definition, but you may be able to figure out a
better way :-)

-- arvind

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