On Thursday 13 December 2001 11:58, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've been experiencing random freezes with my laptop with the Neomagic > > NM220 (or smthing likely) chip. Freezes lock up screen and keyboard, only > > mouse still works (but nothing gets registered i think) > > > > Now: man neomagic(4) says: > > > > On some laptops using the 2160 chipset (MagicGraph 128XD) > > the following options are needed to avoid a lock-up of the > > graphic engine: > > Option "XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect" > > Option "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill" > > > > could this help resolve my problem? > > I seem to one of the few who doesn't have these lockups, so I don't > know if those options fix the problem you have. > The problem is so common that the CVS version has those disabled by > default. Anyone who doesn't have the lockups and who wants maximum > acceleration should use the config line: > Option "NoStrangeLockups"
I have the XFree86-4.1 version... no cvs for me (it would take ages to compile xfree86 on this laptop!) I've tried the above two lines, which result in immediate and utter lockup... resetting didn't help, i had to poweroff the machine before I could get back in X. I really don't get it. Is there any way to know for sure what is causing these lockups? Thanks DK _______________________________________________ Neomagic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/neomagic
