Bug 3505

Summary: system freeze with sis driver on amd64
Product: xorg Reporter: Daniel Stone <daniel>
Component: Driver/SiSAssignee: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: high    
Version: 6.8.1   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description FreeDesktop Bugzilla Database Corruption Fix User 2005-06-09 18:30:27 UTC 
When I am using the sis driver and I load pages with a lot of images within
firefox, my system usually freezes within five minutes.  I have also had freezes
while running other applications but they are less frequent.  The system becomes
completely dead, and the caps lock key does not work.  I have no such problems
with the vesa driver.

I am currently running SuSE 9.2.  I previously had the problem under Kubuntu and
Gentoo.  I didn't check the drivers on the latter two so I can't be sure I was
using sis on those, but I assume that I was.

System info:
PowerSpec 8985
Athlon 64 3400+
SiS 760 video card

Software info on SuSE:
kernel 2.6.8 x86_64
glibc 2.3.3
x.org 6.8.1

Software info on Kubuntu/Gentoo:
various kernels between 2.6.8 and 2.6.10, x86_64
various glibc between 2.3.3 and 2.3.5
varios x.org between 6.7.0 and 6.8.2
Comment 1 Thomas Winischhofer 2005-07-05 00:50:45 UTC 
Did you try the driver from my website (www.winischhofer.at/linuxsisvga.shtml)?
Comment 2 Thomas Winischhofer 2005-09-30 12:32:26 UTC 
I will close this bug if there is no response from the reporter within a month
from now.
Comment 3 Thomas Winischhofer 2005-09-30 12:33:21 UTC 
Ah... the bugzilla database collapsed and lost the reporter. Great.

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