I strongly believe that there is something wrong in the Bios which Abit
needs to fix. I believe that they actually did fix it in the PW bios,
but due to their hastiness or whatever, broke other apects of that bios.
I believe this because of my experience with NT. I have an NT box
under PW which has been running now 24X7X100%x2 for 24 days straight.
Surely, this is a record!
So until Abit fixes the Bios permanently, I just leave my Linux boxes in
console mode under NJ and upgrade my NT boxes to PW and am for the time
stable.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Burgiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 3:44 PM
To: Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards
Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] XFree 3.3.6 ?
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:16:07PM +0000, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
> > Is this the same, or worse, than 3.3.5? My correspondence with one
> > of the XFree86 maintainers indicates that they are aware of no
> > SMP/BP6/SVGA problems like many of have that need addressing. If
> > we could only pin it down ...
>
> I have reported several times about X crashing the system completely
> and the xfree team is of no help at all. they start asking things.
> you give information. they never reply anymore. again bring it to
> their attention. they ask again... and ... well, it's useless I am
> afraid.
>From my bit of correspondence with them, I got the feeling that they
would be more than willing to do something, but really need more go on
than 'X crashes my box'. That's the tricky part, since there is no
logging or any symptom of anything (at least for me) -- just a dead
duck. And you have to say that since most reports are from BP6->X,
it, at least on the surface, looks to be a hardware related problem.
Of course, probably most SMP desktops with X are BP6s too, so that
kinda skews things.
> I am pretty sure that X is causing most of the problems. It happened
> on several versions of the kernel, several versions of X, several
> video cards. It even went down on UP kernels.
I noticed something unusual on my last lockup. Don't know that it
means anything, but I use 'xset dpms off' to shut down the monitor.
Normally the green power indicator light goes to orange. On wake up
with keyboard/mouse it goes back to solid green right away. This time
I notice it was flashing orange to green like it was in standby mode.
I suspect it locked on waking up.
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