Re: Instabilities in GDM

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 04:32:13PM -0800, Bob Taylor wrote:
> In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.990331153834.16648D-100000@slip-3.slip.net>, Ben 
> Rock
> wood writes:
> cc:  gnome-list@gnome.org
> > 
> > BINGO!!  You know exsactly what I'm talking about.  It hadn't happened
> > for a year and a half, I'm using a Matrox Millenium and I believe that
> > I'm running 3.3.2 of XFree86.  ...and the whole machine locks.
> > 
> > 	I did seem more like an X problem then GDM, but when I heard
> > about "bugs", that was the only one I could think of.
> > 
> > 	I don't know if I'll upgrade quite yet, but I'm glad someone
> > else can validate me.
> 
> I'm running XFree86-3.3.3.1-1 on a Matrox Mill II. X will lock up my
> Alpha if I restart X from xdm. So far I have had no lockup with xdm
> configured to NOT restart the server.


The Millennium II that makes the card lock up sometimes while
autodetecting the amount of videoram. Specifying the amount of
videoram in XF86Config prevent problems.

(The weird thing is that I have a Millennium II too, don't specify
my ram, but have never suffered any such lockup).

Ronald