Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:23:57 +0000 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No X server on Alpha? Message-ID: <200802011723.RAA21312@sopwith.solgatos.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:08:22 CST." <47A335E6.9090209@uchicago.edu>
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> Unfortunately, my Alpha has some hardware issue and will no longer boot. > It started while trying to run Firefox (I suspect X doesn't respect the > DMA bug in the pass 1 Pyxis). This crashed the machine a couple times, > and I kept retrying it, and now it won't do anything. Without X, it was > rock-solid, and Firefox worked fine over X forwarding. Other X programs > that didn't use large pixmaps worked fine too. Once I get the machine > back up, I'll send in a patch. > > Incidentally, if anyone has any experience debugging Alphas, I'd > appreciate help. It's an AlphaPC 164SX and is stopping at POST code > 0x14, which the manual informs me indicates "Memory errors cleared; > start reading system ROM". Have you made any hardware changes recently? added/removed card, ... You might need to reinstall the SRM firmware, if it will get far enough to do that.
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