From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 22 9:49:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D40A37B433 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:49:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-241-209.bras01.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [207.173.241.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A02B43E3B for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:49:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.110]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 85336EE571; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:19:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <003901c2924b$50fee600$6e2a6ba5@tagalong> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Andrew Gallatin" Cc: "Schroeder, Aaron" , References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E3217@waexch1.qgraph.com><000b01c29230$5a334470$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> <15838.15400.402699.945697@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Built From Ports Dumps Core Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:18:19 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Gallatin" To: "Drew Tomlinson" Cc: "Schroeder, Aaron" ; Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:16 AM Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Built From Ports Dumps Core > > Drew Tomlinson writes: > > Thanks for the help. I'm real new to the Alpha and haven't found much in > > the way of documentation on the web. I can tell from the console 'show > > config' command that my graphics card is in slot 4. Do you have any idea if > > this is a 32 or 64 bit slot? If I physically open the box, can I tell the > > difference by looking? How? I assume the 64 bit slots would be longer as > > they'd have more pins? > > > Yes. You can also tell via 'pciconf -lv' from FreeBSD, or 'show > conf' at the SRM prompt. > > 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. Thanks for the tips. I ran the commands and sure enough, the card was on pci0. I opened the box and moved the card to one of the shorter PCI slots, assuming it was a 32 bit one. When I rebooted the machine, the card now shows up on pci1. 'XFree86 -configure' still dumps core. I noticed errors in the logs regarding SYSV stuff that wasn't available so I adding it to my kernel and rebuilding. I also ran xf86config and generated a basic config file using card 284 (2064 driver) and appropriate entries for my monitor. 'startx' brings up X windows with twm but the picture quality is really bad. It's bad at all resolutions and color depths. Are there any specific settings in the X config file that I should look for? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message