From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 11 9:35:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FC137B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pirzyk.org (dsl-65-184-181-29.telocity.com [65.184.181.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40DD43E77 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:35:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pirzyk@pirzyk.org) Received: from zephyr.pirzyk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pirzyk.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9BGWJsU004555; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:32:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pirzyk@zephyr.pirzyk.org) Received: (from pirzyk@localhost) by zephyr.pirzyk.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g9BGWJ1h004554; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:32:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Pirzyk Message-Id: <200210111632.g9BGWJ1h004554@zephyr.pirzyk.org> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, jim@pirzyk.org Subject: RE: XFree86 on a DS10 Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15782.59357.740537.376822@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Schroeder, Aaron writes: > > This may not be it at all, but I had some problems with my Miata and the > > XFree86-4.1.x release. > > > > When I would go to configure X with 'XFree86 -configure' my machine would > > die and go back to the SRM... > > > > When I put my Matrox card behind the PCI-Bridge, i.e. in one of the 32-bit > > slots, things worked fine. > > > > Maybe you could try and put your video card in a 32-bit slot? > > He doesn't have any, its a ds10. > > Don't run -probeonly. Alphas don't like their PCI buses blindly > groped at. Just setup a conservative XFree86 config file via the text > based setup and go from there. So I ran startx and it still hung the system. Is there a way to disable the PCI probe module from being executed? I also am wondering if this problem is related to the floppy disk not working on some systems (but it does work in mine, but I think that is related to the amount of memory in the system). - JimP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message