Re: Weird problem with a G400 - shows only junk through mga_vid

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:38:25AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Moin,
> 
> Just a guess, (as i'm still not able to reproduce your problem)
> could it be that your X server is interfering with mga_vid ?

That's what I thought too, right at the start ...
 
> Ie, could you try to run -vo mga from the console without
> X running ?

I did. Didn't I send the screenshot already? I took one from that too. 
No luck. ... Hm. Ok, seems I didn't send this yet. Attaching now.

Could be that this is from the very run from which I took the log too.

> BTW: which X server are you using ?

X.org 6.8.2, I think the thing has some Gentoo-specific patches.

The funny thing is that it occasionally does draw the right image, but 
only when running X and at least _starting_ with some additional load. 
("nice emerge -update -deep world & mplayer", heh...)

> are you running gnome?

No way on _this_ hardware... I run WindowMaker mostly but did try with 
twm too.

> do you run any applications that load large images (like
> background images, Eterm,...) ?

No. I stopped loading background images in about 1994 ;-) after I 
did a bit of measuring with and without... and haven't 
used them since. Well, on some newish systems (more than a GHz, and at 
least half a G of RAM) I haven't bothered to remove the system default 
background. But this isn't one of those.



Oh well. This isn't much of a priority any more, after I got the wife a 
Thinkpad T30. That one proved easier to tweak into working right. (The 
fact that it has several times the CPU and memory _does_ help...)

I guess I'll rebuild the old thing as a Windows games box for the kids. 
Got a nice old "Pippi Långstrump" CD that needs something between 
Windows 3.0 and 98SE, for example. (Wine doesn't do _that_ old APIs anyway.)


-- 
Mikko Nahkola <[email protected]>

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