From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 2 10:31:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mf2.bredband.net (mf2.lab.bredband.com [195.54.122.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 793DE37B41D for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:31:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from psi.unix ([213.113.124.5]) by mf2.bredband.net with SMTP id <20020402183124.QMFO4148.mf2@psi.unix> for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:31:24 +0200 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:31:44 +0200 From: Simon Sandlund To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 making screen periodically blank Message-Id: <20020402203144.629cae3c.orbb@bredband.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:03:32 -0500 (EST) William Denton wrote: > I upgraded XFree86 to the latest port version last night, and this morning > when I tried it out it didn't work right. It started up OK, then after a > few seconds the screen went black and then flashed back on, making an > electrical whooshing sound like monitors make. It happened again, and > again, then there was a delay, then it happened again and again. I > restarted X a few times, I checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but nothing > looked serious. There were two warnings: > > (WW) ATI(0): Failed to set write-combining range (0xf0000,0x10000) > (WW) ATI(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer. > > I use fvwm2, and the way I have things set up, the Alt-Fn keys should pop > up menus. They didn't-seemed like the Alt key wasn't being noticed. I > thought it might be the window manager that didn't get along with the new > X, so I installed the newest version from the ports, but that didn't fix > things either. I'd start X, it'd come up, be OK for a few seconds, then > blank off and come back, sometimes staying on for several seconds, > sometimes going back off almost immediately. > > Does anyone have any idea what this might be, or what I could look for? > I'm using an ATI Mach 64, and FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE upgraded about a week > ago. XFree86-4.1.0_12,1 worked perfectly for me, and I didn't change the > XF86Config. > > I haven't tried my ati mach64 card with freebsd, but on linux and Xfree 4.2.0 with my mach64 I'm also having my screen flashing like that, but with a longer delay. The "vesa" driver works fine for me but unfortunatly it's too slow, but maybe you could try that just to get it working. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message