From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 29 16:10:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (mail.transbay.net [209.133.53.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3074637B404 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borges (stalwart.codysbooks.com [209.133.54.175]) by transbay.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g3TNAYw21069; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE From: Scott Reese Reply-To: sreese@codysbooks.com To: Peter Schultz Cc: Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3CCDAA90.6000109@jocose.org> References: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> <1020110436.9956.15.camel@borges.codysbooks.com> <3CCDAA90.6000109@jocose.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 29 Apr 2002 16:07:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1020121647.75373.3.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 Mon, 2002-04-29 at 14:18, Peter Schultz wrote: > Scott Reese wrote: > > Hello, > > > > About a month ago I attempted to upgrade my XFree86 installation to > > 4.2.0. The build and install went just fine. However, when I went to > > start X, my screen blinked on and off and was entirely unusable. This > > is with an ATI Mach 64 3D Rage Pro. Works fine with XFree86 > > 4.1.0_13,1. I seem to recall that a couple of other people noticed this > > as well and I was wondering if this problem has been resolved? > > > Add this to your XF86Config file under the "Device" section: > Option "composite_sync" "Off" Thank you! That did the trick and I'm now running Version 4.2.0 quite happily. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message