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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>
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Subject: Re: XFree86 locking up
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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!