I forgot to mention that Xfree86 version 4.1.0 fixed my problems with x-windows on PCM-5822. Prior to this I was using version 3.6 with kernel 2.2.18 (as shipped with slackware 7.1). I reported a problem with starting x, sometimes the machine would freeze, forcing me to pull the power. When it did that, the screen would either go blank or I would get a smattering of white dots on black. I recently upgraded to slackware 8 with kernel 2.4.5 and Xfree 4.0.1. Now when I start x-windows it never freezes. Interestingly it briefly does display the black screen with white dots, but it recovers. The new 4.1 x-windows server is slick. There is no need to use the old "guess and try" method of configuring the proper server, modelines, sync rates, or anything. Just do XFree86 -configure and it creates an XF86Config file. There is no longer an SVGA server, one server works with all cards using loadable modules. Xfree 4.1 detected the MediaGX graphics controller and auto loaded the VESA driver. I'm still having cold start problems with IBM microdrive. Seems that uDrive needs to warm up before being useful, which equates to three or four reboots. I'm wondering if anyone has played with the watchdog stuff on PCM-5822? It would be cool if I had a simple watchdog timing out and rebooting till the microdrive warms up. I'm also wondering if anyone has played with the power management stuff in PCM-5822 BIOS. It appears to allow shutting off devices by IRQ or something like that. I'd love to power off the parallel port and ethernet transceivers. Has anyone tried this? One last comment -- I've said this before -- if you are using PCM-5822 you need to find a way to brace the DB15 VGA connector. It can break very easily. I have one that bent and separated from the board some time ago. Today it finally broke right off. Fortunately I only use TFT LCDs with that particular board for prototyping in-vehicle systems so its not a problem. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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