Bug 22073
Summary: | (Permedia 2) on RH7/Alpha graphical corruption and machine hang (Including during GNU installer!) | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | jpranevich |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | alpha | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-04-13 17:55:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
jpranevich
2000-12-11 20:56:13 UTC
Actually, using the XFree4.x RPMs and using their variant of NoAccel seems to get it working okay. I still have occasional reboots and issues, but those could be general RH7.0 instability rather than a video card option. The non- accellerated option is *much* slower than the accellerated one. I can give you my config file to show you a working config. I would think that the graphical installer would default to a safe setting. I'm surprised it would have these issues. No, if you're having random reboots they are definitely not "general instability in Red Hat Linux 7.0". They are almost certainly related to XFree86. I've got some patches from compaq that might fix the problems. The permedia driver is quite buggy. Are you willing to test some new RPMS? I'll whip 'em up for ya if so. It's been two months since I put in the ticket, here's how things stand now: I've been running successfully with RH7.0 with accelleration turned off. I will occasionally get machine hangs, and I will occasionally get XServer hangs. (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace solves those) The hangs almost always happen during a screensaver, and not necessarily one of the GL ones. HOWEVER, the hangs don't happen often enough for me to readily be able to test a new RPM with accelleration off. (I could test, but I can't guarantee that I'd see the problem in a reasonable amount of time.) With accelleration turned on, I will see the hangs. (Probably-- I haven't tried it in a couple months, but I don't see any reason why it would suddenly fix itself.) Is that what you'd like to test? A *MAJOR* new update to the Permedia driver has just been incorporated into XFree86-4.0.3-8. The patches are from Compaq, and fix numerous problems on Alpha, as well as other platforms. These packages are available for download at: http://people.redhat.com/mharris Please close the bug report after confirming that it does in fact fix the problem for you, and ensure that you fill out new bug reports if you encounter any new errors. Thanks. I mistakenly gave a bad URL above. ;o( The proper URL is: ftp://people.redhat.com Not http. Please try out the latest code and let me know if this problem is fixed now. I've received reports back that the permedia/alpha bugs seem to be gone in the latest XFree86 packages. Please upgrade to the XFree86-4.0.3-9 release in rawhide or wait until our Seawolf Alpha release is finalized. |