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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Who to ask about XF86/FreeBSD problem ? Date: 15 Mar 1996 01:19:32 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4iagj4$j5u@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Who are the best people to ask about XF86, S3 and FreeBSD problems ? I'll outline the problem below, but if you can point me in the correct direction I'd love to hear from you. We're having a problem with our FreeBSD machine dieing completly every day or so. It seems to be related to running X, and when the machine dies it just dies. No panic, no reboot, no ctl-alt-del, no ping - nothing. We have to power cycle it to get it to start again. On ocasion it has gone into a state where it tries to reboot, but never finds any disks ( by the looks of things, when this happens it ends up in a hi res graphics mode on a text screan which is unreadable ). We're running the S3 X server, and the card has an S3 968 chip with and IBM 524 170MHZ ram dac. We have the Invert_VCLK "*" 0 option set to avoid getting the left hand side of the screen duplicated on the right. The machine can die even if X is idle ( ie. on xlogin screen, with just xconsole running ). I've also tried recompiling the server with less optimisation. The PC is a 120MB Pentum, with a 512K pipeline burst cache, triton PCI, 2xAdaptec 2940 SCSI, Digital DC21041 Ethernet, this video card and 64MB of ram. The SCSI is moderately busy, as I'm testing a news server. Everything installed is from the 2.1.0-RELEASE distribution. David.