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Date:      Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:44:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86-4 and alpha DS10
Message-ID:  <15235.57688.52231.201459@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01082209254200.47205@snoopy>
References:  <0108211748400B.25171@snoopy> <15235.1551.56300.544975@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <01082209254200.47205@snoopy>

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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?

Drew

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