Nick Rout wrote:
>
> I found this Ted:
>
Did you mean Trevor ;-)
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&safe=off&th=a2d3860c587509cc&rnum=34
Nick, thanks for all your time searching (I didn't find anything relevant),
it say's...
you must put the graphics card into Bus Mastering mode. I discovered that X will
freeze when you switch from it to a virtual terminal and back if you don't have
Bus Mastering on.
i don't think it applies to my problem, (Am i wrong ?)
Switching back to X from a virtual terminal X is not freezing, i can't get back
to X from a virtual terminal i have a blank screen and no * keyboard * in any of
the CTRL ALT F1.....F7 and my only choice is the reset button.
All this has happened since it did not shutdown properly and i had a corrupted
reisiser / partition.
If i could use Bus Mastering it would speedup my screen drawing :-), i will
check it out.
>From cat /proc/pci
VGA compatible controller: Rendition Verite V2000/V2100/V2200 (rev 6).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
^^^^^^^^^^
Does this mean i can use Bus Mastering ?.
I think the keyboard disappearing in the VCs and in shutdown might be the cause
of my problem, even the * Num Lock LED goes out *
>From xfree86.org - 3.3.x
Known problems in current driver:
Switching to VC does not restore correct textmode. Instead it defaults to 80x25.
The XFree86-4.1.0 & 4.2.0 has the same problem.
What is the correct textmode in a VC ?, 80x25 is to big (it wraps around the
screen on long text).
When installing MDK it used XF86Config, i also have a XF86Config-4 file, would
there be any point going to XFree86 4.1.0 or later ?.
rpm -q XFree86 say's
XFree86-4.1.0-17mdk
But "xdpyinfo" say's
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: Mandrake Linux (XFree86 3.3.6, X-TT 1.3, patch level 25.1mdk)
vendor release number: 3360
XFree86 version: 3.3.6
.................................
...............
screen #0:
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (347x260 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (1): 16
.....................
Why does rpm -q say XFree86-4.1.0 but xdpyinfo say's 3.3.6 ?.
>From xfree86.org
XFree 3.3.x Rendition driver development discontinued in favour of XFree 4.0
driver.
Why is it not using it ?.
Why doesn't /proc/interrupts /devices list the PCI video card ?.
but only in /proc/pci VGA compatible controller: Rendition Verite
V2000/V2100/V2200 (rev 6). IRQ 9.
.xsession-errors has this and others
Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find handler
containing data (0x8199A20)
Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0".
Opener: received SetSecret
Opener: received OpenLock
Also i've had a zombie for a long time, is it relevant.
trev 1863 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 13:39 0:00 [Xsession <defunct>]
How do i get rid of it ?. I cannot kill it in or out of X.
This is driving me nuts :-(, and probably you all as well.
>
> But don't ask me how to turn bus mastering on, I think it is described
> in the README.DRI file
It is.
Many Thanks
Trevor
Nick
>
> On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:22:44 +1200
> Trev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Nick Rout wrote:
> > >
> > > Trev, what happens when you kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace? can you get
> > > to a terminal window then?
> >
> > I haven't tried that, and i don't want to at the moment. I don't to risk
> > corrupting my partitions again.
> >
> > > can you boot into the text only runlevel (usually rl 3) ok?
> >
> > I just had to with no problems, made a boo boo in XF86Config.
> >
> > > On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 21:28:29 +1200
> > > Trev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
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