[ale] Need a recommendation

[Heaton, William P]

	If you only knew how much I've swapped around to stop this
problem. I, like you, have been using the S3 for about a year at home
with lovely performance, that is, until about a week ago. Now when I'm
running X, the slightest wrong mouse move will send the machine into
a lock-up that reminds me of Win31! I've removed all components
except what was needed, swapped mice, swapped memory, swapped
the kbd, HD, etc. I'm taking an ATI Rage home to try tonight and see if that
does it, if not I assume the power supply could be passing a nasty spike
in once in a while, or the DMA controller has gone bonkers on the
motherboard. I'm glad components are cheap these days... 

Phil Heaton - Boeing Metrology
(770)497-5565 - Lab
(404)726-5769 - Pager
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> From: 	vernard at cc.gatech.edu[SMTP:vernard at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: 	Thursday, July 16, 1998 2:09 AM
> To: 	william.p.heaton at boeing.com
> Cc: 	ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: 	Re: [ale] Need a recommendation
> 
> > Please recommend some decent 4M video cards that work well
> > with XFree86/Linux. I'm currently using an S3Virge and it flaky.
> 
> I have been using an S3 Virge 4MB PCI card for quite some time on Redhat
> 4.2
> with no problems. I usually do 1280x1024 @16bpp (due to monitor
> restrictions I
> can't do 24bpp at that res). It has never flaked out on me. You might want
> to
> put your card in another slot to see if that particular slot is flakey
> rather
> than the chipset.
> 
> V
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