[ale] Multiheaded X Freezes

[Steven A. DuChene]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Benjamin Dixon wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Last night I finally procured the monitors and video cards necessary to
> setup my machine as a multiheaded X box (one desktop across 3 monitors). 
> I did this using Ximian under RedHat 7.1, two trident 96xx cards and the
> built in i810 AGP video on my Dell Dimension l600r (P3 600, 384Mb RAM,
> 16Mb video). Everything works great, for awhile. It seems that if I use
> Mozilla for awhile, X freezes up. I have to shutdown and restart to
> reclaim my monitors. Has anyone else had anything like that happen with
> the xinerama extensions to XFree 4.0.3? I haven't had a chance to switch
> out the tridents, which I think have 1Mb video RAM (they're old ok! :)).
> Could this be the problem?
> 

I would strongly advise upgrading to XFree86-4.1.0   Many improvements
were made. What kernel are you running? I know a few code changes were
made to the AGP agpgart support for the i810 video stuff as well as
perhaps some mtrr stuff which should be enabled also.
-- 
Steven A. DuChene      linux-clusters at mindspring.com
                      sduchene at mindspring.com

        http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene/

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