Re: Creator 3D Series 3 FFB2+ question

From: Phil Macphail (philip.macphail_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:39:57 +0000

Jeff Wieland wrote:
> In article <Pine.SOL.4.58.0503231531280.9194@zen.rite-group.com> Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
>
>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Jeff Wieland wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm looking for a framebuffer for a 440 MHz Ultra 10, and it appears
>>>that the best general use framebuffer would be the Creator 3D Series 3
>>>FFB2+. There appear to be two version of this, the 501-4788/X3663A
>>>and the 501-5690/X3670A, with the difference being that the latter is
>>>Energy Star compliant. Any thoughts on which one would be better?
>>
>>The latter I guess has the edge, but only if you care about Energy Star
>>compliance. FWFI, I have two of the '5960s in my Ultra 60.
>>
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>>
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>
>
> I should have expanded on why I'm asking about framebuffers. My wife's
> Ultra 10 has an Elite 3D-M3. Once in a while, while running Mozilla,
> it will just lock up completely. A Stop-A does nothing and it does not
> respond to pings. We have to power-cycle(!) it to get it back
> running. Nothing gets logged anywhere that I can find when this
> happens.
>
> There is nothing peculiar about Mozilla that I'm aware of, and I'm
> using the same build on my Ultra 5 at home, and my Sun Blade 1500 at
> work. It might just be a coincidence that it has locked up in
> Mozilla.
>
> I've redirected the console to ttya, and I've left an xterm running
> tip'ped in from my Ultra 5. Maybe if it happens again I'll be able
> to use a break to get it down to firmware and take a crash dump, or
> maybe it'll display something on a serial console that it can't on
> the display when things go wrong. Of course, since I've set this
> up, the system hasn't locked up...
>
> It has never locked up when running Mozilla and displaying on my
> Ultra 5, so I'm suspicious of things like the framebuffer.
>
> After I posted the original message, I found out that a buddy of
> mine has a spare X3670A that he'd let me have for $20, so I might
> go that route to try to debug the problem.
>
> BTW Rich -- great book!
> --
> Jeff Wieland

I have the same problem with an Ultra 10 and Elite frame buffer. Very
occasionally the desktop hangs with Mozilla, but not with any other
application. This started when I moved from Soalris 9 to 10 (beta).
When this happens I can open a remote terminal on another machine to
shut-down in an orderly manner, so the problem is likely to be with X or
the Elite driver.
Mozilla also gets the colour map confused too,which is another annoyance!

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