Subject: Re: XFree86 4.1 problem
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Sun Sep 09 2001 - 21:03:08 MDT
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> There is a caveat with XF 4.1 on Lombards in particular.
> You need to have:
>
> Option "reference_clock" "29.498928 Mhz"
> Option "hw cursor" "off"
>
> in your "Device" subsection.
Is this at all needed for 4.0.2? Will it continue to be needed
beyond 4.1? Or just until the bug(s) in 4.1 are fixed
(hopefully in 4.2)?
> The last thing, currently there is a bug related to sleep on Lombard hardware
> only. Basically, when you wake up (if you're running XF 4.1 when you sleep)
> the framebuffer is jacked and a reboot is necessary. This issue, I'm told,
> is at least partially fixed in bitkeeper.
So are you saying it's a kernel issue and not an XFree86 issue?
> Other then that, XF 4.1 is extremely good on the Lombard from my experience.
Well, since I like to sleep my Lombard, I'll wait. Thanks for
the info.
- Paul
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