Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:40:53 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com>, <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Built From Ports Dumps Core Message-ID: <20021122093112.E3339-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> In-Reply-To: <15838.15400.402699.945697@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > The 64-bit slots are directly on the main pci bus; the 32-bit slots > are behind a dec pci-pci bridge. If your video board is in a 64-bit > slot, it should appear on bus 0. And aren't 64 bit slots physically longer than the others? In my miata, if it is laying on it's side, the rear of the box is towards me, the 64 bit slot is on the far left. (are there two? I forget) As for your questions of X server, I have a few suggestions. 1) unless you really need some feature of Xv4, I'd run a v3 server - they 'just work' with my matrox cards. When I was playing with v4 servers I had to revert to 4.1.0 to get anything to work, and even then, I had to play around with X -configure a bunch inbetween machine-checks - I got enough of a config file that I could hand-edit it into working. Specifically, I had to disable the 'record' 'xtrap' 'dri' and 'pex5' modules in my config file, and I had to compile the server with the 'stubbed-out' version of the int10 stuff -- there is some #define somewhere that lets you swap no-op code in for the normal int10 module. Once I had done all these things, I had a running server. Big pain in the butt, and I _still_ got an occaional machine-check that I never had the patience to track down... Perhaps it's just the matrox driver that has problems. I remember seeing someone with an elsa gloria card that X worked just fine for... I'm sure there are others. I have a millenium II card... As for alpha being a bit less user-friendly, well yes that is true. I think it's mostly that there are less of us using alpha boxes, so many little annoying things take a long time to get resolved. Hang in there - you'll have fun :). And keep the questions comming if you have them - dont be shy. Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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