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Date:      Thu, 23 May 1996 19:27:13 -0700
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ma64 + stable + X causes reboot 
Message-ID:  <199605240227.TAA15610@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 00:34:30 MDT." <199605230634.AAA01562@terra.aros.net> 

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>    I recently upgraded my personal box here to -stable from 2.1.0-RELEASE.
> The machine is a P100, IDE (I know, I know. :), 64Mb ram, ATI Mach64 
> video card.
> 
>    I can run X -probeonly without ill effects, but the minute I actually 
> attempt to 'startx', the screen blanks, the system thinks for a minute, 
> the screen goes in to power saver mode, and the system falls flat on its 
> face and reboots itself.  Obviously, I didn't have any problems under 
> -release.  I'm using the same kernel configuration file as I was before; 
> the only thing that has changed was a 'make world'.  It's 3.1.2E of the 
> Mach64 X server.

I wonder if this is a manifestation of the sio3 interference.  Have you 
modified sio.c and removed the 0x2e8 probe?  


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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