Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Alain <alain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if this will be helpful at all, but here is a problem I ran into:

I installed Suse 7.3 on my laptop, which has a somewhat weird graphics
chipset.  I couldn't get X11 to work because Suse choose to setup XFree86
version 3 (which doesn't support the chipset without a patch).  After I
realized this was happening, I started SaX2, which switched the machine to
XFree86 version 4 - and all worked fine.

Alain


On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:26:16AM -0800, Christopher R. Carlen wrote:
>Jason Poynting wrote:
>
>[edit G400 32mb graphics card [edit] When the console screensave kicked in, it crashed.
>[edit] So I started X and
>> that seemed OK. Then I exited it. It crashed. The resulting fsck was a
>> bit worrying.[edit]
>
>
>
>Hi:
>
>I have had similar problems.  This is very disturbing because I 
>specifically bought the G400 because the MGA was one of the best 
>supported graphics chipsets for XFree86.  I research very carefully what 
>hardware to but when building a Linux box.  I have had no problems 
>whatever with two G400 boxes running any Linux until suse 7.3.  Now it 
>is a mess.  I am having the same crashes as you.
>
>1.  Does anyone know for sure what is the cause of this problem?  Is it 
>the kernel, XFree86, or just a configuration issue?
>
>I will not accept any suggestion that it is the card, because I have 
>seen two G400s running flawlessly for almost 2 years in two machines 
>across several versions of Suse Linux and XFree86.
>
>2.  What will fix this?  It is pathetic to have a Linux system crashing 
>like this, especially with a piece of mainstream graphics hardware.
>
>I hope for sure this can be straightened out.  Good luck, and I will 
>begin researching this in depth in the next few days, as I have had the 
>first two crashes of an entire Linux box while running only as a user 
>since 1.2.8.  This is very disappointing.  I can't accept having Linux 
>boxes behave like Windows 3.1.
>
>
>____________________________________
>Christopher R. Carlen
>Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
>Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
>crcarle@xxxxxxxxxx
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