From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 1 15:06:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A14416A41B for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:06:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathanw@uchicago.edu) Received: from smtp120.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com (smtp120.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.96.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA83913C448 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:06:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathanw@uchicago.edu) Received: (qmail 4535 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2008 15:06:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO trantor.home) (nwhitehorn@att.net@75.42.232.236 with plain) by smtp120.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2008 15:06:00 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: VE0pxgMVM1mgLTSyU7emDdGvQTEIyv_K2ZfwhB4VvjnHCCzANd7JtTt6Ajr.1iIKdrCstRvTFIzmUSA66_jk9kfUkrS0UtoCfnrBFQ8Ri6BwfOVVHiXu0g-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <47A335E6.9090209@uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:08:22 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080126) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org References: <20080201053023.GC79823@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20080201053023.GC79823@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: No X server on Alpha? X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:06:02 -0000 David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:42:05AM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> After forcing xorg-server to link -lio, everyone works perfectly. I even >> have Firefox (1.5) and pidgin running without issue. And with the recent > > Can you send a patch in to fix the port(s)? Unfortunately, my Alpha has some hardware issue and will no longer boot. It started while trying to run Firefox (I suspect X doesn't respect the DMA bug in the pass 1 Pyxis). This crashed the machine a couple times, and I kept retrying it, and now it won't do anything. Without X, it was rock-solid, and Firefox worked fine over X forwarding. Other X programs that didn't use large pixmaps worked fine too. Once I get the machine back up, I'll send in a patch. Incidentally, if anyone has any experience debugging Alphas, I'd appreciate help. It's an AlphaPC 164SX and is stopping at POST code 0x14, which the manual informs me indicates "Memory errors cleared; start reading system ROM". -Nathan