Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:08:22 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> To: obrien@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No X server on Alpha? Message-ID: <47A335E6.9090209@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080201053023.GC79823@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <Pine.PMDF.4.44L.0801161201480.1099-100000@local.admin.athabascau.ca> <Pine.GSO.4.62.0801190940040.7991@harper.uchicago.edu> <20080201053023.GC79823@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:42:05AM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> After forcing xorg-server to link -lio, everyone works perfectly. I even >> have Firefox (1.5) and pidgin running without issue. And with the recent > > Can you send a patch in to fix the port(s)? 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". -Nathan
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