From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 3 12:31:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (www.transbay.net [209.133.53.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA2537B430 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from borges (stalwart.codysbooks.com [209.133.54.175]) by transbay.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g32Ihj505406; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:43:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 making screen periodically blank From: Scott Reese Reply-To: sreese@codysbooks.com To: William Denton Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 02 Apr 2002 10:43:04 -0800 Message-Id: <1017772991.275.13.camel@borges.codysbooks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 09:03, William Denton wrote: > I upgraded XFree86 to the latest port version last night, and this morning > when I tried it out it didn't work right. It started up OK, then after a > few seconds the screen went black and then flashed back on, making an > electrical whooshing sound like monitors make. It happened again, and > again, then there was a delay, then it happened again and again. I > restarted X a few times, I checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but nothing > looked serious. There were two warnings: > > (WW) ATI(0): Failed to set write-combining range (0xf0000,0x10000) > (WW) ATI(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer. > > I use fvwm2, and the way I have things set up, the Alt-Fn keys should pop > up menus. They didn't-seemed like the Alt key wasn't being noticed. I > thought it might be the window manager that didn't get along with the new > X, so I installed the newest version from the ports, but that didn't fix > things either. I'd start X, it'd come up, be OK for a few seconds, then > blank off and come back, sometimes staying on for several seconds, > sometimes going back off almost immediately. > > Does anyone have any idea what this might be, or what I could look for? > I'm using an ATI Mach 64, and FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE upgraded about a week > ago. XFree86-4.1.0_12,1 worked perfectly for me, and I didn't change the > XF86Config I'm also seeing this problem with XFree86 4.2.0 and I am also using an ATI Mach 64 3D Rage Pro. I'm currently holding at 4.1.0_13,1 which works flawlessly. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message