On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 04:03:46PM -0800, Ryan Lackey wrote:
> My new theory is that there is a DMA issue with the BP6 board; maybe
> it is locking up during a DMA sync while idle or something. I'm
> going to try turning off all dma on my box next, and see if that
> fixes it.
>
> Has X been ruled out as a cause yet? Certainly console mode would
> have a lot less DMA going on than X, so even if it still crashes a
> little on console, crashing less might be the difference.
I think X is a prime suspect. Too many seem to be doing OK without it,
but scant few with it. I'm inclined to think it is XFree, but maybe
it is hardware. Then again maybe only certain X server(s).
> I notice that on reboots sometimes I get DMA hangs, leading me to
> suspect DMA even more...
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