Re: video crashing my box?

Curtiss (1CMC3466@ibm.mtsac.edu)
Wed, 06 Mar 96 03:27:44 PST


On Tue, 05 Mar 1996 19:18:30 -0600 Larry 'Daffy' Daffner said:
>
>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?
>
Have you been having the same problems when debugging GUI or graphics
based programs? I have a few programs that when I run gdb or xxgdb on them
they like to segfault and take gdb or xxgdb with them, basically leaving
my system in limbo. Now with zgv has giving me enough headaches to where
I've stopped using it because having a 1.6 GIG drive being fixed each time
zgv goes really bites. Since the problems haven't left me any info when
the system locks or crashes, I haven't been able to track the ultimate
source of the trouble.

Curtiss