Re: total freeze with framebuffer + X

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:55:01 -0500

On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 01:51:50PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Not sure whether this is a kernel or X bug, but here goes:
>
> I have framebuffer support enabled (atyfb) with an ATI Mach64 card
> (Xpert98). If I run X twice, i.e. start X, then run another server from
> within an xterm, the machine freezes. This does not happen if framebuffer
> is disabled. I've seen this since 2.2.1 (when I first compiled framebuffer
> in).
>
> Has anybody else seen this? Any ideas what might be wrong?
>

thanks to all who replied. I'm now running the unaccelerated
XF86_FBDev server instead, which works.

-- arvind

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