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- From: rnelson@ocelot.csc.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: GF3 firmware error
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.185759.22108@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 18:57:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1992Aug31.185759.22108
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- Reply-To: rnelson@ocelot.csc.wsu.edu.UUCP ()
- Organization: Washington State University
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- We are experiencing two possibly related problems on one of our machines,
- perhaps some one might know what the problem is.
-
- 1. Occasionally, when a user is logged in at the console, the screen
- will blank out and stay blank. Sometimes you can still see the
- popup menus so you can logout (but the popup menus are really dark).
- Once logged out, or the console process is killed, the colors are
- restored when the login screen is drawn.
- This has only started happening recently.
- (This may be occuring only when the user is logged in overnight
- after and/or while using SDRC-IDEAS.)
-
- 2. We are also starting to get GF3 firmware errors and the graphics
- board shuts down. When we restart the machine we get the following
- error on the terminal on serial port 1:
-
- gfx: GF3 firmware is not responding
- gfx: no working graphics hardware
- Error -- cannot open console "gfx(0)"
- } sizing and clearing memory!
-
- ... and the start up menu ...
-
- The machine does eventually startup if we leave the machine off
- for a few hours and will run fine (with the exception of problem 1)
- for days or even weeks.
-
- Any info would be appreciated.
-
- Roger
-
- (PS Thanks to everyone who responded to my last query about init not
- respawning ttys, the problem cleared itself up after a couple of days,
- and appeared to be related to cron).
-
- rnelson@ocelot.csc.wsu.edu
-