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From: Paul Halliday <dp@dove.penix.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 + XFree86 4.3 + Alpha
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Stephen Agar wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I just recently installed freebsd 4.9 on a DEC PWS 500au. Everything
> works fine except X. I realize that the problem more than likely isn't
> FreeBSD specific, its probably a problem with XFree but I thought you
> guys may be able to give me some advice. When I try to run "xf86cfg" to
> configure my xserver, it just hangs and takes 99% of the CPU. Ive also
> tried manually creating config files just to see if I got the same
> behavior, and I did. I have tried with a few different vid cards, the
> Cirrus Logic that was originally in this machine, an ATI Mach64, and an
> S3 Trio. It always hangs at the same spot in the log and takes 99% of
> the CPU. Here's an excerpt from the log file. Thanks in advance for any
> help, i'm thinking I may need to just wait for X 4.4, but i'm hoping
> someone out there has had better luck than I have.
>

I had the same problem. I simply installed the most current Xf86 server.

p.