From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 11 04:39:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA18078 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 04:39:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA18066 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 04:39:15 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05707; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:39:02 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA05921; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:38:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA00439; Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:35:37 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506111135.NAA00439@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: XFree86 locking up To: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:35:37 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, XFree86@xfree86.org In-Reply-To: from "-Vince-" at Jun 11, 95 02:24:49 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1220 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)