From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Apr 19 9:33:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from goku.cl.msu.edu (goku.cl.msu.edu [35.8.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269EA37B404 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goku.cl.msu.edu (guru@localhost.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by goku.cl.msu.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3JGXjdW049705; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:33:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from guru@goku.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from guru@localhost) by goku.cl.msu.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3JGXiiV049704; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:33:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:33:44 -0400 From: Bush Doctor To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATI Mach64-GB w/ XFree86 4.2.0 ... black screen? Message-ID: <20020419163344.GA30581@goku.cl.msu.edu> Mail-Followup-To: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020418162639.W38886-100000@mail1.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020418162639.W38886-100000@mail1.hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 WWW-Home-Page: http://bantu.cl.msu.edu Organisation: Information Systems - Michigan State University Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Out of da blue Marc G. Fournier aka (scrappy@hub.org) said: > > Morning ... > > Just upgraded one of my colleagues computers ... brand new > dual-AMD system, 512Meg of RAM ... really flies ... > > Copied in her old XF86Config file, as well as tried to regenerate > one with xf86config, and when I do a 'startx', it just hangs there doing > nothing ... > > Are there any problems with the ATI Mach64-GB card and 4.2.0? > Something I'm overlooking to debug this? I ran into the same problem. I thought it was the video card. Since it was a few years old, i just picked up a used NVidia card and kept going. In graphics mode the screen was skewed and kept blinking every 10 seconds or so in graphics mode > > Thanks ... > > #;@0 -- "Consider a spherical bear, in simple harmonic motion..." -- Professor in the UCB physics department bush doctor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message