Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:44:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and alpha DS10 Message-ID: <15235.57688.52231.201459@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <01082209254200.47205@snoopy> References: <0108211748400B.25171@snoopy> <15235.1551.56300.544975@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <01082209254200.47205@snoopy>
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Jim Pirzyk writes: > Hmmm, Tried that version and it hung on me again (under 4.3-RELEASE) > Are you using the GENERIC kernel? I was not and this is my > next test. I also forgot to mention that I have the ATI xpert 128 > pci card in the system (with 16MB) of ram. I also get a 'beep' right > after I do the 'X -probeonly'. > I suspect that its not making it through the BIOS emulator in XFree86 -- ati cards are supposed to be especially bad at this. I've heard that some ATI cards don't even make it through the SRM console bios emulation code & are not usable as console devices. Can you use your graphics head as a console? Can you try a different card? Like a Permedia-2 based card (like the ELSA that DEQ ships w/their workstations) or a Matrox? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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