On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> > Though this same card under mdk 7.2 caused problems where in X my mouse
> > was represented by a large white block, regardless of what I did with the
> > X display options that box was always there in place of a mouse
> > cursor. This only occurs in 7.2 though
had a similar problem with my abit bp6 smp mobo and had to update the
bios before the smp kernel would run without hanging in a similar
fashion to your box. The kernel.org 2.2.17 kernel compiled for smp would
work just fine however. Go figure. In the meantime consider you current
bios rev and eval
>Try "Option sw_cursor" to change the white square to a mouse
>pointer.
i was going to say the same thing. it should be in X86Config or
X86Config-4. i'm really not sure on the naming system, and/or if
X86Config-4 shows up only in XFree86 4.0, or what. as such, i'm still
having trouble installi
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:21:11PM +0100, civileme wrote:
> Anthony Russello wrote:
> >
> > Actually, I'm running an SiS6326 8 meg video card under mdk 7.1 on a P233
> > and I have no problems switching between X and console. I do it quite
> > often actually.
> >
> > Though this same card und
> Select Expert Install and put the XFree86-3.3.6 server on. The
> XFree86-4.01 has some problems with SiS 6326 (and some 530s and 620s but
> not 540s and 630s) yet.
Ah, I see. So there is a bug with the SiS 6326 series. Here I was
thinking it was osmehting I did wrong. Thanks for clearing t
Anthony Russello wrote:
>
> Actually, I'm running an SiS6326 8 meg video card under mdk 7.1 on a P233
> and I have no problems switching between X and console. I do it quite
> often actually.
>
> Though this same card under mdk 7.2 caused problems where in X my mouse
> was represented by a lar
Actually, I'm running an SiS6326 8 meg video card under mdk 7.1 on a P233
and I have no problems switching between X and console. I do it quite
often actually.
Though this same card under mdk 7.2 caused problems where in X my mouse
was represented by a large white block, regardless of what I d
Trevor Farrell wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> I, too, have a machine that goes coma-tose and nothing responds except
> ctrl-alt-del! I can access it from telnet, but all local access is dead. My
> problem is simple to locate, however, it is my SiS6326 video chip - it doesn't
> like switching from con
Michael,
I, too, have a machine that goes coma-tose and nothing responds except
ctrl-alt-del! I can access it from telnet, but all local access is dead. My
problem is simple to locate, however, it is my SiS6326 video chip - it doesn't
like switching from console mode to X - about 1 in 3 switche
i also run win98se, and that doesn't seem to be as "crash-y," or at least, not
these kinds of crashes. my ram is fine, the cpu shouldn't have a heat
problem... not with the side open like i usually keep it. and the usb has
never been a problem.
as to the questions.
1)there doesn't seem to be
it could be LOTS of things. it could be some sort of hardware problem like
bad ram, a screwy hard drive, CPU overheating, or a bad USB chip.
to get useful help you'll want to come up with as much detail as you can:
is there any pattern to the crashing?
what software are you running?
what are you
i'm absolutely clueless. linux simply likes to crash on me. 7.1 and
7.2 have both been doing it and i don't know why. and the thing i love
about linux is the stability!
so, if anyone knows where such things are logged by the system, or if i
need to turn logging on, or what could possibly doing
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