Re: [OFFTOPIC] SVGALib 1.2.11 fixes Quake Core dumps

[teunis]

> On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Chris wrote:
> 
> > After upgrading my squake to 1.0 last night, I was still sad that it still
> > coredumped on my mmx.  Today, after upgrading to svgalib 1.2.11, the
> > problem has disapeared.  I can load squake as many times as I like.  Just
> > thought i'd say this...
> 
> after upgrading to 1.2.11, to "support" my ViRGE card, everything works
> great...  except
> 
> zgv will lock up my system solid... but not all the time, often it will
> cause DMA errors on my first IDE disk, and i can Ctrl-C out of it..
> sometimes it will work great, and (often after 4+ days) uptime, it will
> lock solid, nothing in syslog, sysrq doesnt seem to work, and i have to
> cold reboot.  the chances that it completly locks seems to be amplified if
> i am using my soundcard at the same time.

If it's any help, loading ViRGE into memory-mapped IO mode seems to setup
a situation where the IDE (if it's in DMA mode) locks on triton (and
maybe others).

If anyone can figure this one out, the GGI folks would seriously
appreciate it!
AFAIK this is still a problem... at least there's some kind of conflict
between ViRGE and Triton-IDE.....

I don't think this is particularily ontopic for linux-kernel though...
except that it probably hits a few people out there - and someone may have
a solution (please?)

G'day, eh? :)
	- Teunis