From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 22 9:51:29 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 18E5A37B41B for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:51:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from pain10.corp.disney.com (root@pain10.corp.disney.com [153.7.110.100]) by mail.disney.com (Switch-2.0.1/Switch-2.0.1) with SMTP id f7MGoPe19735 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:50:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.30.50.1] by pain.corp.disney.com with ESMTP for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:52:17 -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 f7MGvBs12007 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:57:12 -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 JAA29015 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:51:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com by mercury.fan.fa.disney.com; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:51:16 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Pirzyk Organization: Walt Disney Feature Animation To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and alpha DS10 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:51:15 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org References: <0108211748400B.25171@snoopy> <01082209254200.47205@snoopy> <15235.57688.52231.201459@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <15235.57688.52231.201459@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082209511502.47205@snoopy> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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. - JimP -- --- @(#) $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