From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 10 13:17:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.aros.net (mail.aros.net [207.173.16.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D770337B403 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aros.net (lumpy.aros.net [207.173.16.40]) by mail.aros.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8AKHWJ69558; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:17:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3B9D1FDC.5090301@aros.net> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:17:32 -0600 From: Troy Bowman Organization: ArosNet, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@rikrose.net Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Radeon + A7A266 + XFree86-4.1.0 + spontaneous reboot woes... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 This is a problem with the AMD761 chipset, because it kinda non-standard. It seems like I read that it was their AGP implementation. A fix in X's drivers to work with the 761 would help greatly. I found a few mailng list discussions on it, and they said that they're "working on it." As for the rebooting, well, X runs as root and talks directly to hardware. Programs that do that are always threats. ...troy. freebsd-stable@rikrose.net wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm following -STABLE. I have an Athlon 1400 MHz on an Asus A7A266, with a >Radeon VIVO graphics card. I have XFree86 4.1.0 from ports, and I have >discovered (much to my dismay) that X reboots the machine quite >consistently. > >I noticed that as far back ago as June this problem was reported to >the -stable list, with Mike Smith stepping forwards to say he was >investigating it. That was June, and it's now September... > >this a -stable problem, or an XFree problem. Where should I send a problem >report? IMHO, this shouldn't be able to reboot the machine, so even if >this is an XFree86 problem, you guys should know. > >Are there any fixes in the pipeline? Did you even know? Should I submit a >PR? > >rik > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message