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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.n2.net!jgibbons From: jgibbons@n2.net (Jeff Gibbons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X11 problem (Stealth64) Date: 19 Jan 1996 07:42:05 GMT Organization: N2 Networking Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4dni0d$9f2@news.n2.net> References: <4d6trt$gg5@bambam.soi.city.ac.uk> <4dcp3d$hgr@news.n2.net> <DL84GC.998.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ravel.n2.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote: : In article <4dcp3d$hgr@news.n2.net> jgibbons@n2.net (Jeff Gibbons) writes: : >: after a random amount of time the display locks up and . . . : This probably won't help, but just in case... : I once encountered a machine (486DX33) which starting locking up when : I put a new graphics card in it (Orchid S3). The problem was fixed by : turning off "Hidden refresh" in the BIOS configuration. : -- Richard : -- Thanks for the suggestion, Richard -- The closest I could see in my bios was to turn off PCI burst transfers (mine's a Pentium 75 with Triton chipset), but I tried that and the problem is still there. If I can't solve my problem with this video board I'll trade it for another -- does anyone have any suggestions for a PCI video board which is available now, which performs reliably under FreeBSD/XFree86? Or is there anyone who is successfully using the Diamond Stealth64 2001 PCI (the one with the Trio64 chip)? Thanks, Jeff -- --------------------------------- Jeff Gibbons jgibbons@n2.net ---------------------------------