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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:52:12 +0800
From:      Shaun Dwyer <sdwyer@arach.net.au>
To:        Paul Boehmer <paul@pboehmer.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 4.3.0 Matrox/MultiHead (Long!)
Message-ID:  <3E759ACC.8050803@arach.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20030313113235.Y77941@netfoo.net>
References:  <20030313113235.Y77941@netfoo.net>

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Hi Paul, everyone,

I have exactly the same problem.

I have a 2.4Ghz P4, 512MB ram, 32MB AGP Asus GeForce 2 GTS DDR, and a 4MB PCI 
Matrox Mistique.

the AGP card is the primary display, the matrox is the 2nd.

I have had exactly the same thing happen after upgrading Xfree86 to 4.3.0 from 
4.2.0.
Its really annoying the hell out of me. You can get so used to a nice dual head 
machine :)

Does anyone have a working dual head machine with Xfree86 4.3.0 and 1 or more 
Matrox cards?

Looking at the Xfree86 log file, the last line i see is also:
------
(II) Truncating PCI BIOS Length to 32768
------
This happens after/while initialising the PCI Matrox card.

running top, xdm seems to consume all available CPU.

Paul: Please keep me updated if you find a solution. I will do the same.

When i get some time, I might try swapping out the matrox card for an S3 Virge PCI
and see if i get the same results.

--Shaun

Paul Boehmer wrote:

> I have a test box that had been running X 4.2 in a multihead config for a
> while now (1 Nvidia TNT2 AGP, and 2 Matrox Millennium/Mystique PCI Cards).
> I upgraded yesterday to 4.3.0 only to find out that any attempts to run X
> result in a complete console lockup (still have access via ssh).  Since
> the box was running 5.0, I loaded 4.8-RC from scratch this morning only to
> find the same problem.
>
> Using a 4.2.x standby XF86Config, X works fine when running a single card
> (either TNT or Matrox).  I get console lockups when attempting to run
> multiple cards.


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