Re: NeoMagic 2070 console lockup

Hi Karen,

we have had some reports about this lockup problem.
Unfortunately no developer has access to a 2070. Therefore this
is hard to debug. The cause shouldn't be hard to find
as the information that it can also be triggered by
'probeonly' strongly points towards the PreInit() function.

It involves however some testing, though.
I'd need someone who can build X and apply minor changes 
to the driver to help me track down this problem.

If you'd volunteer to help me debug this we may be
able to come up with a fix.

Regards,
	Egbert.



Karen Kietzke writes:
 > I'm running XFree86 4.2.0 on a Dell Latitude LM with a NeoMagic 2070 card, 
 > 896K video ram, SuSE 7.3.  The archives were quite helpful in getting it 
 > configured so that the display is correct, however I'm having one other 
 > problem for which no solution seems to have been mentioned.  X leaves the 
 > console in an unusable state when it exits.  It isn't even necessary to 
 > fully start X to make this happen; "X -probeonly" will do it.  "vga_reset" 
 > restores the console, e.g. "xinit ; vga_reset".  This is a less than 
 > perfect solution, however; in order to successfully suspend I have to 
 > switch to a text console, run vga_reset, and then suspend.  I can then 
 > return to console 7 when it wakes up and pick up where I left off.  If I 
 > suspend (or BIOS suspends) without doing this, it hangs.  Also, it 
 > sometimes hangs if I try to switch to an external monitor.  Has anyone made 
 > any progress on figuring out what part of the probe is screwing it up?
 > 
 > Note: please CC me on all replies to this message - I'm not sure if my 
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