Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 16:31:20 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, XFree86@xfree86.org Subject: Re: XFree86 locking up Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950611162823.22898U-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506111135.NAA00439@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, 11 Jun 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As -Vince- wrote: > > > > I've been experiencing a problem with the FreeBSD 2.0-Alpha > > distribution of XFree86. I am currently up to the lastest FreeBSD > > -current along with a new kernel but for some reason, when I use startx, > > the whole machine will lock up after a short period of time. I am using > > a ASUS P54TP4 P5-90 motherboard based on the Intel Triton chipset with > > the Diamond SpeedStar Plus Hi-Color 16-bit Video Card. Does anyone have > > any suggestions what I can do to find out if it is the video card causing > > the problem since I've already pulled out all other cards and under > > Microsoft windows, it locks up occasionally after I switch the drivers > > but if I was using the TurboWindows drivers, it would lock up > > immediately. > > I'm not sure which type of board the SpeedStar blahblah is (Diamond > has a habit of delivering vastly different boards under almost > identical names :-( ), but perhaps you might disable direct frame > buffer access. I think it's something like ``option "nomemaccess"'' > in the XF86Config file, refer to the man page(s). > This is actually a 1991 video card using the TSENG ET-4000AX chipset with the Sierra Hi-Color 32k RAMDAC. I was looking at the manpages and also the XF86Config.eg file but I didn't see a ``option "nomemaccess"'' option. Also, do you know what happened to all the Alt-Fn key bindings in XFree86 that comes with FreeBSD 2.0.5 since it used to work with the XFree 3.1.1 server. Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!
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