I wish it was as simple as disabling the framebuffer in my case - I tried that and it had no effect that I could see - even with the standard text console it still crashed at least once.
If you want to try to reproduce this, try using xmms with the smpeg plugin or avifile - if the stars are right going to fullscreen in either might cause the problem. Also Ctrl+Alt++/- will do it for me sometimes. Unfortunately, I never know when it's going to fail and when it will succeed (and it succeeds more often than it fails). -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW | ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | and significant law, no man may kill a cat. <http://www.mclure.org> | -- H.P. Lovecraft ----- Original Message ----- From: "Detlef Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Manuel McLure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [Xpert]tdfx driver crashes when changing resolutions > I have a Voodoo 3 and can see a similar problem when starting an > application using OpenGL and changing resolution. > This application is Terminus, it switches very often the resolution > between 640x480 and the desktop default. > When the application has uploaded its textures for OpenGL, the text > consoles disappear and show artifacts of the X Server screen. > > But this does not happen if the default resolution of the desktop is > 640x480, i.e. no resolution changes happen. > And it does not happen if all if all text consoles are vga based, i.e. > no framebuffer is used for some fancy background images. > > I'm using SuSE 7.3 (it shows the SuSE logo on the first console by > default) and XFree86 4.1.0. > Unfortunately I haven't found an open source application, with that the > problem could be reproduced. > > Detlef > > > > Manuel McLure wrote: > > >I have been having a problem with the tdfx server in 4.1.0 (and with the > >server in the latest DRI trunk) - on occasion changing the resolution > >(either through Ctrl+Alt++/- or through some app changing the resolution) > >causes the server to crash. This is an occasional occurrence, and I have > >found it impossible to reproduce this when I want to. XFree86.0.log shows > >nothing. After the crash the text console or the framebuffer > >console )whichever I am using) will be corrupted and I need to reboot to fix > >them, although X will restart and display correctly (and probably will *not* > >crash again if I change resolutions). Other than occasionally crashing when > >changing resolutions, I find the server rock-solid. > > > >This is on Red Hat 7.1 or 7.2, with the Red Hat RPMs or my own > >built-from-scratch 4.1.0 or DRI trunk. Hardware is a Voodoo 5 5500 on an MSI > >K7T Turbo-R (VIA KT133A chipset) with an Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz. > > > >Anyone have any ideas - at least some way I can get more information from > >the next crash to send to the list. > >Thanks! > >-- > >Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW | ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | and significant law, no man may kill a cat. > ><http://www.mclure.org> | -- H.P. Lovecraft > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Xpert mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > > > > > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
