Yes, it is reproducible. All I have to do is log in, less /var/log/messages,
go to the end of the file, and start backing up. Within a few screens the
machine will lock up.

I patched the kernel as you suggested and tried it again. No luck,
unfortunately -- the behavior persists.

For reference, the the video card in question is a Matrox Millenium (MGA).
It isn't a TGA card, although it should just be operating as a VGA device, I
imagine. It is detected as vga0 by the kernel.

-Edwin

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Harvey
To: efoo@crl.dec.com; port-alpha@netbsd.org
Sent: 5/23/99 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: garbled console/lockup


Is this reproducible? If it is, please try the following patch:

	save mail message to tgapatch.gz.uue
	uudecode tgapatch.gz.uue
	gzip -d tgapatch.gz
	patch /sys/dev/pci/tga.c tgapatch

Ross.Harvey@Computer.Org
 <<tgapatch.gz>>