Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:46:20 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gramster@mweb.co.za> To: boshea@ricochet.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and console switching crash Message-ID: <39495CBC.E95F780F@mweb.co.za> References: <39491AB6.CC265957@mweb.co.za> <20000615124623.B424@beastie.localdomain>
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Brian O'Shea wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:04:38PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'm making one last effort to get XFree86-3.3.6 to work, to get around > > the switch crash in XFree86-4.0. > > > > Maybe I'm just doing something idiot (grud knows, it certainly wouldn't > > be the first time ;-) ), so I have attached my XF86Config file and the > > output from startx to this message. If anyone has any ideas, please let > > me know... > > > > regards > > gram > > > > Well, for starters you don't have any valid Modelines for your > video hardware. Were these generated by a config program (like > "xf86config")? Writing these things is such a pain, so I usually > rely on xf86config to generate them for me. I have all the 800x600 ones generated by xf86config. And furthermore, I know that one of them corresponds exactly to the parameters reported by xvidtune under X4. The refresh rates also correpond to (working) X4 config file. Maybe X4 overrides them anyhow, due to some internal heuristic, and that's why it has worked and 3.3.6 hasn't? Anyway I have made progress. I commented out the driver line, and changed the Vertical refresh line to encompass the full range corresponding to the modelines, and now it starts! So I was doing something idiot. Sheesh! And to think that there were times in the past when I calculated my own mode line entries. I must be getting senile 8-( And the good news is, I can switch out to a text mode console, and then back - no crash! At last! Laptop heaven here I come... Thanks for all the suggestions folks. As always you've been a great help. Especially in motivating me not to just give up and resign myself to living with the problems I was experincing. gram To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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