From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 19:23:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24030 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 19:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA24023 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 19:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA15610; Thu, 23 May 1996 19:27:13 -0700 Message-Id: <199605240227.TAA15610@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Dave Andersen cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ma64 + stable + X causes reboot In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 00:34:30 MDT." <199605230634.AAA01562@terra.aros.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:27:13 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- > 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