Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:04:03 -0800 From: Everett Batey <efbatey@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: Michael Bowerman <michael.bowerman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Stable with 3dfx voodoo3 [Others?] Message-ID: <e3ef6b790511071304p58d2fa1eq57990a21d1045517@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael et al, I have had NO luck with FreeBSD since 4.7 getting Gnome or any GUI to work. Really would like to see the survey of what MOBO's and what OnBoard Video's HAVE WORKED for OTHERS .. Survey. This is getting as tough as Solaris on Intel .. I have VIA KM3M w/ On Bd video chip .. Nightmares On 11/7/05, Michael Bowerman <michael.bowerman@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a kernel issue or an Xorg issue. Maybe someone co= uld > point me in the right direction. > > I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.0 stable on one of my boxes. It was work= ing > with Gnome on 5.4 perfectly fine. But, after the upgrade, it gives a blac= k > screen, hangs, then reboots. I noticed that it says something about a ker= nel > panic causing reboot. > > I thought that maybe I screwed something up, since this was my first free= bsd > upgrade. So, I reinstalled (and repartitioned) the whole OS from the cd. = I > was able to reach the terminal just fine. But, as soon as I enabled Gnome= , > It locked again and then rebooted. I'm pretty sure that the Xorg.conf fil= e > is set up correctly. > > I think the problem has something to do with the 3dfx card, because it's > been a big trouble for me (that's why it is on my test box). > > > Thanks in advance, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Ev Batey -- WA6CRE -- efbatey@gmail.com 805 340-6471 http://www.cotdazr.org
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