Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:50:53 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: James <jjy@eaglequest.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and XFree86-4.x ati driver lockup problem -- Solution Message-ID: <20040401035053.GA24389@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <406B814C.2020408@eaglequest.com> References: <406B814C.2020408@eaglequest.com>
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--wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:41:16PM -0500, James wrote: > To the FreeBSD team, >=20 > I struggled with this one for quite a while before figuring it out, so=20 > here goes... >=20 > I had been using FreeBSD 4x for quite some time on my Compaq Presario=20 > 1800. And, XFree86-3.6x worked nicely with the laptop's ATI Rage=20 > Mobility graphics chip. Unfortunately, the FreeBSD 4x branch didn't=20 > support the Atheros chipsets in some of the newer networking cards like= =20 > the Netgear WG511, so I upgraded to FreeBSD 5.2.1. > After that, I couldn't get XFree86-4x to work reliably with my laptop. > It turned out that the X instability, which included complete system=20 > lockup, was caused by the ACPI module being loaded upon boot-up.=20 > Sometimes the Xserver would start-up sometimes not. Also, there was a=20 > guaranteed system lockup if you exited Xwindows and then re-entered=20 > Xwindows at a later time. In other words, you only got one Xsession per= =20 > boot! So, after trying all sorts of things in XF86Config, and upgrading= =20 > to XFree86-4.4 from XFree86-4.3 it turned out that all I needed to do=20 > was add the following line to my /boot/device.hints file... >=20 > hint.acpi.0.disabled=3D"1" >=20 > After that everything worked great! Xwindows is stable, and my new=20 > Netgear WG511 card is working like a charm. You might try building a kernel without SMP and apic. That let me use my ATI Rage P/M Mobility reliably and still keep acpi enabled. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAa5GcXY6L6fI4GtQRAnugAJ4ktefb1/b4sYWA/cVDB+9SygY7bQCgiIzm 6R0AVWMn1qfLsPu9/u4rcSw= =hCtC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC--
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