video crashing my box?

Larry 'Daffy' Daffner (ldaffner@muirwood.convex.com)
Tue, 05 Mar 1996 19:18:30 -0600


I've been having some strange problems with video since at least
1.3.68. (It may have been earlier, but I didn't see it). It's
happened under both Xfree86 3.1.2 and svgalib-1.2.9. The X locked up
when I tried switching from the X vc to a text VC, and just froze
completely, with most of the X display still on the screen. svgalib
locked up when switching between pictures in zgv. The screen goes
black and everything freezes hard. I have to hit the reset button. My
video card is a Diamond SpeedStar Pro (CL 5428-based card). Anyone
seen anything like this or have any suggestions? Is this possibly a
hardware bug? I've already tried playing with the video shadowing in
my BIOS, on or off doesn't seem to matter.

Any ideas?

-Larry

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