[LUNI] Strange X behavior

[David Ehle]

Martin,

Thanks for the reply.  After spending several hours on this I think i'm
going to scrounge around and see if I can come up with a replacemnt card.
I tried booting Knoppix and it did the same thing. It has Xfree86 V.4.2 I
think (?) and it still freaked out.

David.
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Martin Maney wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:17:26PM -0500, David Ehle wrote:
> > THe video card is a S3 Trio64V.  Thats not supported in Xfree86 4 so I
> > went back to Xfree86 v3.x.x.  I'm using xserver-s3 and xfree86-common v3
>
> It is in later versions.  You might try 4.2 or later if you get
> desperate.
>
> > So, I think the biggest clue is the Maxed out CPU ussage.  Anyone have any
> > ideas what might be going on here?
>
> Nothing much beyond the obvious: that card doesn't play nice with
> XFree.  :-(
>
> You've already tried capturing the stuff the server spews while booting
> up and looking for clues there, yes?  IIRC, it's one of those jobs
> where you need to capture the stderr stream.
>
> Luck!
>
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