Re: Instabilities in GDM

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 02:35:22PM -0800, Bob Taylor wrote:
> In message <19990402221426.A3825@win.tue.nl>, Ronald de Man writes:
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 04:32:13PM -0800, Bob Taylor wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > 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).
> 
> I also have my video RAM specified in my XF86Config. You running XFree86
> on an Alpha?

Nope, just a regular x86 system here.

Hmmm, if videoram is correctly specified, then I'm afraid I don't
know what's causing your problems. The known problems with your
card and XFree86 are listed at

http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/MGA5.html#5

Like I said, I have never experienced lockups caused by the Mill II myself.

If you have 8 meg of videoram you could try to put 4 meg in XF86Config
and see if it's still locking up... just a thought. Or contact the
XFree authors.

Ronald