[geeks] Re: [rescue] FS/FT: PGX32 24-bit PCI video card

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 03:13:03PM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> > Not to be contrary, but we use a lot of the Raptor cards... and while
> > they work with the stock drivers, I've found that if you don't install
> > the Raptor-specific drivers, you get the X server to hang semi-frequently.
> > In particular, I had problems with metatool (DiskSuite).   As soon as
> > you tried to drag anything, the cursor would go away and the X server
> > would be hung.  You'd have to telnet in to kill the X server to
> > recover.  Since we hadn't added user accounts yet, and hadn't
> > tweaked /etc/default/login, it actually meant I had to power it
> > down to recover....  bad juju.
> I had very similar problems with my Raptor card.  If the card is in 8+24
> bit mode, displaying an xemacs session to it would freeze the X server.
> All my problems went away once I managed to get the card into 24-bit only
> mode.

I always lock all my Sun framebuffers to 24-bit-only mode and have never
had any problems...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX