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Date:      Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:35:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, XFree86@xfree86.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 locking up
Message-ID:  <199506111135.NAA00439@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950611021740.21809R-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> from "-Vince-" at Jun 11, 95 02:24:49 am

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As -Vince- wrote:
> 
> 	I've been experiencing a problem with the FreeBSD 2.0-Alpha 
> distribution of XFree86.  I am currently up to the lastest FreeBSD 
> -current along with a new kernel but for some reason, when I use startx, 
> the whole machine will lock up after a short period of time.  I am using 
> a ASUS P54TP4 P5-90 motherboard based on the Intel Triton chipset with 
> the Diamond SpeedStar Plus Hi-Color 16-bit Video Card.  Does anyone have 
> any suggestions what I can do to find out if it is the video card causing 
> the problem since I've already pulled out all other cards and under 
> Microsoft windows, it locks up occasionally after I switch the drivers 
> but if I was using the TurboWindows drivers, it would lock up 
> immediately.

I'm not sure which type of board the SpeedStar blahblah is (Diamond
has a habit of delivering vastly different boards under almost
identical names :-( ), but perhaps you might disable direct frame
buffer access.  I think it's something like ``option "nomemaccess"''
in the XF86Config file, refer to the man page(s).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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