From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 11 10:11:25 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 52FBA37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9684243EA3 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:11:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9BHBCFu013050; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:11:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9BHBCfh013049; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:11:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:11:12 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jim Pirzyk Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, jim@pirzyk.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 on a DS10 Message-ID: <20021011191112.B12975@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <15782.59357.740537.376822@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200210111632.g9BGWJ1h004554@zephyr.pirzyk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200210111632.g9BGWJ1h004554@zephyr.pirzyk.org>; from pirzyk@pirzyk.org on Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:32:19AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:32:19AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > > 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). How much memory do you have? My DS10 has 256M and that has a non-working floppy. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message