From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 25 19:58:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A6237B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (osh202-181.broadacre.com [66.54.202.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D759A43E42 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:58:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (localhost.scoundrelz.net [127.0.0.1]) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9Q2w7kx008369; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:58:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from localhost (hemi@localhost) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g9Q2w7Ef008366; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:58:07 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: view.scoundrelz.net: hemi owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:58:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Tolbert To: Jameel Akari Cc: Christian Weisgerber , Subject: Re: XFree problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021025215459.K7533-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Jameel, Well, there's good news and there's bad news... Let's start with the good news: pci0: at 5.0 irq 2 The card isn't on IRQ 0 any more. The bad news is it still does the exact same thing. I think I'm just going to dig around for a new card. Thanks, Josh On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Jameel Akari wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > > pci0: at 6.0 irq 0 > > That IRQ 0 is probably what's killing it. I *just* finished a > working XFree86 config on my PC164, which happens to have the same MGA card > you have. (At least the ID strings match.) On my machine, I have it in > the 2nd 32-bit PCI slot and it shows as "at 5.0 irq 2" > > Granted if you do "Xfree86 -configure" it will still machine > check, but of course this is not unexpected. Oops. (What was that a few > days ago about Alphas not liking to have thir address space blindly groped > at.. ;) ) > > Since the Matrox has no other jumpers, only thing I'd suggest is > to try the 2nd 32-bit slot, where it works for me. > > Somewhat unrelated, but when I fire up this card in X, there is > some bizarre distortion of vertical lines and of text inside xterms. The > window borders look something like: > > +------------- > | > | > | #some text here > | > | #more text here > | > ...and the text is "wiggly" in the same manner. Any ideas? > > #!/jameel/akari > for zig in $(find / -name zig); do > rm -f "$zig"; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message