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Subject: XFree86 and Diamond Speedstar Pro
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Sorry to post this here. I posted it to the XFree86 Web site and to their 
newsgroup without response. The solution I have found is to just use a 
different video card, but if anyone else has seen this behavior I would 
be intersted in discussing it:

486-66 32meg VLB with diamond speedstar pro video card (using cirrus 
logic chip) and 2 meg ram on the card. Card works nicely with win3.1 and 
win95. I'm running FreeBSD2.1R and XFree that came with it on the CDrom.

Xwindows will fire up and I can use it, but when I exit Xwindows it 
freezes the console requiring either hitting the reset button, or logging 
in remotely for a remote reboot or halt.

^alt backspace does the same thing. ^alt F1 F2 or F3 does the same thing.
A few seconds after the machine locks the power saving light comes on for 
the monitor (sony 15fs which i have had working on other freebsd Xwindows 
systems). I've tried XF86_SVGA and XF86_16VGA and the accelerated server.
all with the same behavior. I plugged in a generic SVGA card yesterday 
and fired it right up and exited cleanly.

I've tried the nolinear and noaccell options in XF86Config.

Anyone want to buy a diamond speedstar pro VLB card with 2 meg? ;)

I tried to contact diamond but they seem to have vanished off the earth 
(or at least I can't find them)

thanks,

dave racette