Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:01:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "'Jim Pirzyk'" <jim@pirzyk.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: XFree86 on a DS10 Message-ID: <15782.59357.740537.376822@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E2F5A@waexch1.qgraph.com> References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E2F5A@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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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
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