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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.n2.net!jgibbons From: jgibbons@n2.net (Jeff Gibbons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Netscape Crashes! Date: 19 May 1996 06:04:28 GMT Organization: N2 Networking Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4nmdlc$9i7@news.n2.net> References: <319B6118.167EB0E7@shoreland.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ravel.n2.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Thanva Khouvongsavanh (thanva@shoreland.com) wrote: : ...---... ...---... ...---... : I am running FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek CD Installation. : My machine is a P133, triton chipset, 32Meg, Stealth 2001 Series PCI : with 2Meg DRAM, Intel Ethernet express, SoundBlaster 16. : I am running XF86_S3 and fvwm 1.24. : I am crashing when I run netscape 2.02. I cannot see a definite pattern : the crashes. But it appears to me that I would crash during an image : update. : Anyone with any advice please email me: thanva@shoreland.com. Thanva, You may be seeing the same problem that I had, which caused my machine to crash whenever complex graphics were written to the screen (it would crash after several minutes of displaying xterms, or almost immediately when trying to display netscape or fractint). My problem turned out to be in the Stealth 2001 PCI 2 Meg DRAM S3 card (the exact same card as you have), and I could work around the problem by using the XF86_VGA16 or the XF86_Mono drivers instead of the XF86_S3 one. I finally traded my DRAM card for the Stealth PCI VRAM card, which works perfectly. I never knew whether the problem was due to faulty hardware or a bug in the XF86_S3 driver. My problem was occurring about 5 months ago, and I heard that other people with the same card experienced similar problems. I also saw at least one recent posting on the comp.windows.x.i386unix newsgroup that said the problems were fixed when using the latest version of XFree86. Good luck, Jeff -- --------------------------------- Jeff Gibbons jgibbons@n2.net ---------------------------------