Re: Re (6): installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> The video on the CG6 framebuffer (SBus) appears to work for a few
>> minutes after boot, then the console freezes.  [...]
> [...]  I experimented with a few minor changes in the CG6 code, and
> managed to change the symptoms a little.  It looks like it's some
> sort of lack of cooperation between threads, allowing one thread to
> start an operation on the CG6 while another is waiting for one to
> finish.

I've played with cg6 code a fair bit, and I've seen a symptom where the
framebuffer goes into a weird nonworking state.  It doesn't sound quite
like the same problem as yours, but in my case it seemed to be fixed by
adding additional calls to drain the cg6's rendering queue - and some
implementations have the problem and some don't.  Perhaps what you're
seeing is something similar?

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