Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:23:30 -0800 (PST) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: GGI and cli/sti in X |
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On 27 Mar 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <19980327143347.53007@Elf.mj.gts.cz>, > Pavel Machek <pavel@elf.ucw.cz> wrote: > > > >Do this for me: Limit your mem to 16Meg, make your machine swap a > >bit. Now switch consoles from/into X and do it fast. Be creative and > >you'll see complete freeze or at least complete mess-up of video. > > May I suggest you consider the fact that you may have a buggy video card > that freezes the bus when it gets overloaded? At which point the whole > system is dead - not the kernel, but the _hardware_ is dead and needs a > reboot.
I hate to disagree with you but, I've had this problem on 2 diffrent pci cards and an isa. Everything else works and thankfully so does telnet (if I get to it before somone hits the reset button that is) ATI mach64 and S3 chpsets arn't excatly rare either.
> Yes, it has happened a lot, although it is getting rarer. It used to > happen even more back when we had that wonderful VLB thing that is > finally not really an issue any more.
Tell that to my computer. Gerhard
-- Gerhard Mack gmack@imag.net innerfire@starchat.net
As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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