Re: matroxfb, console switches, and BP6 SMP

From: Robert Woodcock (rcw@debian.org)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 01:20:04 EST


On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:46:31PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> There are two workarounds - either you can disable matroxfb acceleration
> at all, as already pointed by J. Simmons, or you can boot with
> video=matrox:fastfont:40960 - it will disable ILOAD operations at cost of
> 40KB of available video RAM.

It's four days later and I have four days of uptime.

Things seem perfectly stable with the fastfont option.

Tomorrow I'll give the disable/enable_bh patch you mailed me a try and then
ditch the fastfont option to see if it still crashes.

THANKS!

-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"Anybody else wanna negotiate?" -- The Fifth Element

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