Re: 2.3.99-pre9-2 very unstable.

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 10:58:19 EST


On Thu, 18 May 2000, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:

> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 03:17:28PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > Even if I install kdb that won't help as I can't switch to text console
> > when it happens - so I probably need crashdump facility - are SGI's or
> > MCL's versions stable and useable against 2.3.latest?
>
> Since display supports a "-delay <interval>" slideshow feature,
> perhaps you could use Xvfb, or just get X running, and then start
> display from a text console window? This will also allow you to isolate
> any PCI-related video card difficulties.
>

Thanks, I will try that - in the meantime I verified that Option
"pci_retry" in XF86Config was innocent - it hangs with and without it (so
I put it back as it is faster).

Regards,
Tigran

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