From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 11 8: 2:22 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 E01BA37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4783A43E9C for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18097; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:02:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g9BF1n857851; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:01:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15782.59357.740537.376822@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:01:49 -0400 (EDT) To: "'Jim Pirzyk'" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: XFree86 on a DS10 In-Reply-To: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E2F5A@waexch1.qgraph.com> References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E2F5A@waexch1.qgraph.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Schroeder, Aaron writes: > This may not be it at all, but I had some problems with my Miata and the > XFree86-4.1.x release. > > When I would go to configure X with 'XFree86 -configure' my machine would > die and go back to the SRM... > > When I put my Matrox card behind the PCI-Bridge, i.e. in one of the 32-bit > slots, things worked fine. > > Maybe you could try and put your video card in a 32-bit slot? He doesn't have any, its a ds10. Don't run -probeonly. Alphas don't like their PCI buses blindly groped at. Just setup a conservative XFree86 config file via the text based setup and go from there. If you can't get the ATI to work, then my suggestion would be to use a elsa gloria (or another glint based card). They seem to work best. FWIW, I ran X on a 21264 as my desktop for 1.5 years. I just switched to a P4. Its so much cooler and quieter in my office now ;) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message