From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Aug 31 16:58:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.disney.com (mail.disney.com [204.128.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084EB37B403 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Hermes10.corp.disney.com (root@hermes10.corp.disney.com [153.7.110.102]) by mail.disney.com (Switch-2.0.1/Switch-2.0.1) with SMTP id f7VNvBe25080 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:57:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.30.50.1] by hermes.corp.disney.com with ESMTP for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:57:05 -0700 Received: from plio.fan.fa.disney.com (plio.fan.fa.disney.com [153.7.118.2]) by pecos.fa.disney.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8105ts27337 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.fan.fa.disney.com (mercury.fan.fa.disney.com [153.7.119.1]) by plio.fan.fa.disney.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA08881 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from [172.30.228.110] by mercury.fan.fa.disney.com; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:58:05 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Pirzyk Organization: Walt Disney Feature Animation To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and alpha DS10 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:58:04 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: 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 So now I have tried the Matrox Millenium II card and I get the same results, so I do not believe it is the ATI card's problem but more with the system itself or the way I have X/kernel configured. I did upgrade the SRM to 5.8-10 and it also did not make a difference. - JimP On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:51:15AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 09:44 am, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Jim Pirzyk writes: > > > Hmmm, Tried that version and it hung on me again (under 4.3-RELEASE) > > > Are you using the GENERIC kernel? I was not and this is my > > > next test. I also forgot to mention that I have the ATI xpert 128 > > > pci card in the system (with 16MB) of ram. I also get a 'beep' right > > > after I do the 'X -probeonly'. > > > > I suspect that its not making it through the BIOS emulator in XFree86 > > -- ati cards are supposed to be especially bad at this. I've heard > > that some ATI cards don't even make it through the SRM console bios > > emulation code & are not usable as console devices. Can you use your > > graphics head as a console? > > > > Can you try a different card? Like a Permedia-2 based card (like the > > ELSA that DEQ ships w/their workstations) or a Matrox? > > I do use the card as a console device. I had picked this card because > it was listed as a card that worked with the DRI on an alpha system, > but maybe not with the version of the SRM that I have (I do have > 5.5 on it). Maybe I should upgrade the SRM on the system. If all > else fails, I do have a Matrox Millenium II card that I can try out. SRM 5.5 is rather old. But Alphas can be picky as far as PCI cards go. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message -- --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.10 2001/05/17 23:38:49 Jim.Pirzyk Exp $ __o Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com ------------- pirzyk@freebsd.org _'\<,_ Senior Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Feature Animation (*)/ (*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message