Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:28:48 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Fred Clift" <fclift@verio.net>, "Andrew Gallatin" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com>, <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Built From Ports Dumps Core Message-ID: <003d01c2924c$9ddcfab0$6e2a6ba5@tagalong> References: <20021122093112.E3339-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Clift" <fclift@verio.net> To: "Andrew Gallatin" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>; "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com>; <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:40 AM Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Built From Ports Dumps Core > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > The 64-bit slots are directly on the main pci bus; the 32-bit slots > > are behind a dec pci-pci bridge. If your video board is in a 64-bit > > slot, it should appear on bus 0. > > And aren't 64 bit slots physically longer than the others? In my miata, > if it is laying on it's side, the rear of the box is towards me, the 64 > bit slot is on the far left. (are there two? I forget) You are correct. They are on the left and there are two. This is what I saw when I opened my box. > As for your questions of X server, I have a few suggestions. 1) unless > you really need some feature of Xv4, I'd run a v3 server - they 'just > work' with my matrox cards. When I was playing with v4 servers I had to > revert to 4.1.0 to get anything to work, and even then, I had to play > around with X -configure a bunch inbetween machine-checks - I got enough > of a config file that I could hand-edit it into working. Specifically, I > had to disable the 'record' 'xtrap' 'dri' and 'pex5' modules in my config > file, and I had to compile the server with the 'stubbed-out' version of > the int10 stuff -- there is some #define somewhere that lets you swap > no-op code in for the normal int10 module. Thanks for the tip. If my latest kernel build and attempts to run XFree86-4 don't work, I'll try version 3. > Once I had done all these things, I had a running server. Big pain in the > butt, and I _still_ got an occaional machine-check that I never had the > patience to track down... Perhaps it's just the matrox driver that has > problems. I remember seeing someone with an elsa gloria card that X > worked just fine for... I'm sure there are others. I have a millenium II > card... I have the same card. > As for alpha being a bit less user-friendly, well yes that is true. I > think it's mostly that there are less of us using alpha boxes, so many > little annoying things take a long time to get resolved. Well that's all right. What do you expect for free? :) I'm not a programmer but I may be able to contribute with testing and writing some docs. > Hang in there - you'll have fun :). And keep the questions comming if you > have them - dont be shy. Thank you. Drew > Fred > > -- > Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute > force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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