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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:20:29 +0100
From:      Rob Evers <rob@debank.tv>
To:        aknoland@mindspring.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 on Alpha and FreeBSD 4.7
Message-ID:  <3E20525D.7020708@debank.tv>
References:  <3E205045.1050806@mindspring.com>

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aknoland@mindspring.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed FreeBSD 4.7 on an AlphaServer 1200 box with zero 
> problems except I can't get X to run. The Alpha has the standard 
> PowerStorm 4D10T PCI video card which is a 3DLabs Permedia2 chipset 
> and TI TVP4020C RAMDAC. I have configured XF86Config with the 
> appropriate card description and driver via sysinstall. When I try to 
> start X the system bombs back to SRM and I have to reboot. I have 
> installed RedHat Linux 7.2 w/ X support in the past and it ran X/KDE 
> with no problem so the system will run X. The BSD I am using is the 
> two disk ISO from the FTP site. Thanks for the help!
>
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Check your /var/log/XFree86.0.log lots of usefull info there,
maybe it will help you identifying the problem


Rob



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