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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] X386: it's doing lines!
Date: 2 Nov 92 21:01:33
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <CGD.92Nov2210133@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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fun problem with X386 -- i think this might be some sort of bug
in either X386 (latest version off of agate 8-), or Julian's
SCSI drivers:
System:
486-50 EISA
Orchid PDIIs
Adaptec 1742 SCSI Host Adaptor
patched w/Terry's patch kit.
The symptoms:
The X server occasionally goes nuts.
as in: vertical line every 8 pixels,
quasi-random patterns moving up/down/left/right
(i say quasi-random, because they've all got the line motif...
usually bits of lines, in the cases where things move, tho...)
X and/or the video board gets confused about how much ram the
videw board has. (it has 1M, but after these
incidents, sometimes X only recognizes 512K. when this happens,
system must be *power cycled* to get it working again.)
the reason that i think it might be related to the SCSI driver is that
it happens more often under heavy disk usage...
really odd: it sometimes *fixes itself*...
somebody help me... this is driving me nutz!
thanks,
Chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark