Issue 6987 - Screen flashes like mad and freezes up the laptop
Summary: Screen flashes like mad and freezes up the laptop
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P1 (highest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: christof.pintaske
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2002-08-14 14:56 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:53 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2002-08-14 14:56:07 UTC 
Hardware:
 - Acer Travelmate notebook
 - Pentium3 1.0GHz processor
 - S3 graphics 4xAGP
 - 15.1" XGA screen
 - S-video out, built lan......
 - Via68a sound
 - 256M ram

Software:
 - Pretty standard Suse7.3 installation
 - XFree86 version: 4.1.0
 - running KDE

As the summary states the screen flashes madly with rectangle and square boxes
all over the screen when the installation welcome screen pops up. At soon as
this happens the whole system simply freezes up and there is nothing I can do
but to kill the system and restart.

I discovered, however, a very interesting thing. I started another X(just X and
nothing else) and display a console on the second X. I cd'd to the OpenOffice
installation dir and started the installation there. Bingo it worked. So I went
back to my normal working environment(KDE) and started swriter and it worked.
However, to my dismay when I tried to open a folder to access a file the same
thing happens and the system died. I hope someone can help me it is quite
desperate. Thanks very much
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2002-08-15 09:29:50 UTC 
Hi Christof,
this is something I've nerver seen (and heard) before. Can you imagine
what happen on this machine? Is it KDE 4.1.0? I've no idea.
Comment 2 christof.pintaske 2002-08-20 11:54:53 UTC 
I have no idea about that. I can just guess that this is an X driver
problem. Please upgrade to XFree86 4.2.0 and see what happens.
Comment 3 christof.pintaske 2002-09-19 16:34:54 UTC 
sorry, no chance to reproduce. I can only suggest to experiment with a
more recent X Server and to check if it is possible to work in
standard VGA mode (for testing purpose). Since it's the XServer that
runs out of control, it's probably not a OOo problem (at least not
directly)
Comment 4 Unknown 2002-09-26 21:20:08 UTC 
Hi everyone,

I have finally found out the what the culprit that causes my system to
freez up. It is the savage driver: savage_drv.o. I have replaced with
a different driver module and my system is chugging along happily now.
Just in case someone out there is having the same problem, I will
provide some further information about my hardware. I have an Acer
laptop with the following video chip: S3 ProSavage Twister, Chip id:
8d01, Product Rev: 1.1. To fix the problem, remove the savage_drv.o
that comes with SuSE7.3 and replace it with this one:
http://www.probo.com/timr/xf41free.tgz(savage_driv.o is packed in it).

Thanks alot again guys for your suggestions.

Fred
Comment 5 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 09:38:45 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for
details. First step in IssueZilla is unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 6 michael.bemmer 2003-03-13 10:14:28 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved
<wontfix/duplicate/worksforme/invalid> issues. Please see this posting for details.