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RE: Intermittent Annoyances

I have the same problem with my X server locking up
my PCM-5822 when restarting X too many times (i.e.
when trying to configure it).  I'm running the XFree 
3.3.6 XF86_SVGA server under Debian 2.2r3.  I've
tried using both the Advantech supplied XF86_SVGA
server and the Debian supplied one, both lockup.

On a good note, I have 800x600 @ 75hz running with
my Cy-Visor.  I can't seem to find a 640x480 config
that will work though.

BTW, has any PCM-5822 owners out there found a way 
to wire in a reset button?  Cycling the power on 
the unit less than optimum.

-Freeman

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Sutherland [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 5:48 PM
To: 
Subject: Intermittent Annoyances

I have a couple of intermittent problems with wearable that are 
annoying. Just wondering if others are having these problems.

First, IBM Microdrive, I have been using a 1GB microdrive every 
day since last october. The drive generally works great, and I 
love the form factor, I'm not going back to laptop hard drives.
But my 1GB microdrive regularly has problems on cold start until
it warms up, which equates to two to four reboots. By cold start 
I don't mean cold ambient temperature, I'm talking room temp 
here, but after wearable has not been running for a while and
has cooled off. When cool, sometimes the microdrive just doesn't
appear as an IDE drive to the system. Other times its detected 
as secondary slave, not master (wierd!), and it boots but fails
on kernel panic because its supposed to be /dev/hdc not /dev/hdd.
In both cases, after several reboots the problem goes away and
everything is peachy. I'm not all that concerned about this 
because my goal is to eventually keep wearable running all the 
time (after solving the charging problem). But I find it to be
annoying and I'm wondering if this is happening to others. I 
think it was kevin who suggested that it was a cold start 
problem, saying his friend had problems with cool drives in 
a camera, which went away after short warm-up period. Is this 
a common problem with microdrive?

The other problem, which really bothers me, is that x-windows
often fails to start properly, and freezes my machine. This one
is scary because it generally requires a panic response, unplug
power and reboot (since ctl-alt-del and ctl-alt-backspace do 
not recover from the condition. In some cases the screen just 
goes blank, other times I get a smattering of white dots on 
black. In both cases the machine freezes. The graphic controller
is the MediaGX CS-5530 on PCM-5822. Is anyone else having this
problem? I am wondering if its my x-windows configuration or if
its a problem with CS-5530 working with the SVGA x-windows 
server. Has anyone tried the National video drivers for linux?

  -- Doug   

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