Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:08:21 +0000 | From | Tom Eastep <> | Subject | Re: PCI IRQ conflict causing X-Windows bug? |
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Benjamin Redelings I wrote: > > Hi, this is in both versions 2.0 and 2.1/2.2. Recently,if X windows is > loaded immediately on startup it locks up. Sometimes if I do an SAK > with alt-sysreq-k it recovers and I am able to log in, but I can't > switch back and forth between text mode and graphics mode. > > Further, today I noticed that I could move the mouse in X only if I > pressed a key, although the keystrokes went nowhere that I could see. > That stopped (I think) when I turned off gpm on boot. > > Anyway, I noticed that both my video card and Realtek 8029 are list as > having IRQ 12 by both linux and by the motherboard BIOS before boot. If > I disablemy USB controller, then both are found at IRQ 9. That is > rather spooky.
If you have a RIVA128-based video card, this is a known problem with XF86_SVGA; it doesn't like to share the ireq. I understand that the problem is corrected in the 3.3.3 version of the server.
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