From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 11 10:19: 5 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 C8FE037B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F90143E42 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:19:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from moe.cs.duke.edu (moe.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.74]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23182; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:19:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (gallatin@localhost) by moe.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.6.9) id NAA13183; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:19:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15783.2054.388551.155982@moe.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:19:02 -0400 (EDT) To: Jim Pirzyk Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: XFree86 on a DS10 In-Reply-To: <200210111632.g9BGWJ1h004554@zephyr.pirzyk.org> References: <15782.59357.740537.376822@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200210111632.g9BGWJ1h004554@zephyr.pirzyk.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Jim Pirzyk writes: > > 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? Specifiy a BusID for your card. BusID "PCI:::" Use pciconf -lv to get this info Eg, "PCI:0:17:0" Fred does have a very good point. I think that the ATI cards present some problems for bios emulation. I really think you should try a glint/permedia based card. > 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). > Totally orthogonal. But I'd like to get that fixed too. Its a bug in how we setup Scatter/Gather DMA on tsunami. Its my bug, I wrote that code. But I"m damned if I see what I did wrong. Can you get me remote access to your machine? (and a serial console would be handy too). Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message