Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:32:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@pirzyk.org> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, jim@pirzyk.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: XFree86 on a DS10 Message-ID: <200210111632.g9BGWJ1h004554@zephyr.pirzyk.org> In-Reply-To: <15782.59357.740537.376822@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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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. So I ran startx and it still hung the system. Is there a way to disable the PCI probe module from being executed? I also am wondering if this problem is related to the floppy disk not working on some systems (but it does work in mine, but I think that is related to the amount of memory in the system). - JimP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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