From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 11 9:17:57 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 DD5BD37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net (gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net [198.65.168.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA1443E91 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.oremut01.us.wh.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058BD3BF187 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:17:50 -0600 (MDT) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9BGHl337856; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:17:47 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:23:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-X-Sender: To: Jim Pirzyk Cc: Subject: Re: XFree86 on a DS10 In-Reply-To: <200210110746.26955.jim@pirzyk.org> Message-ID: <20021011100609.G67854-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I'd suggest going back to XFree86 v3.xx - 4 is kind of flaky and may or may not work depending on the model of alpha you have, the modules you load (or have disabled in the build), what video card you have etc. Also, trying not the latest version of 4.x might help. For instance, on my PWS 433au I have a millenium I card that works great under v3. I've built several versions of v4. Under the stock build from cvsupped ports, X -configure core dumps (int10 module, which, if you build the do-nothing stubs in place of that module, -configure works fine). If you do disable the int10 module, and supply a reasonable XF86Config, then you get machine checks. Building 4.1.0 (int10 module stubbed out still) I can actually get the matrox driver to work if I dont load the pex5, record, or xtrap modules... When I have a LOT more time, I'll trackdown what the int10 module is doing that makes it barf. This is the code that does ia32 emulation for initialization of the bios on cards that are plugged into non-intel-platform boxes like alphas and sparcs etc. The machine checks are harder since you dont get any kind of dump to follow. I guess gdb with lots of breakpoints might do it, but gdb of the X server, with it's own dynamically loaded modules, using it's own module loader, is rather tedious. In short, if you just want a working X server, I know many people have had good luck with matrox cards and X v3.x. I'm not familliar with the exact model you have (the PWS is the only alpha box I've ever had access to) so your mileage may vary :). Fred On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > Has anyone configured XFree86 successfully on an DS10 running > a -stable release? I get the config file created, but when I run > X -probeonly, it beeps at me and then is locked up hard. I cannot drop > into the kernel debugger (with ) and the halt button > does not work either. I have to power cycle the system back. Now > I can get into the kernel debugger other times, so I know that is working. > > Here are some of the hardware configs: > > COMPAQ AlphaServer DS10 466 MHz, 462MHz > CPU: EV6 (21264) major=8 minor=4 extensions=0x303 > real memory = 1071144960 (1046040K bytes) > pci0: at 17.0 irq 47 > psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: interrupting at ISA irq 12 > psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4 > vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 > > If I use the ati driver or the generic vga driver in the XF86Config file, > I get the same results. The log file does not get created, but on the > console screen, it gets to right before this line: > > (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 16777218.0) > > - JimP > > -- > --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.10 2001/05/17 23:38:49 Jim.Pirzyk Exp $ > __o jim@pirzyk.org ----------------------------------------------- > _'\<,_ > (*)/ (*) > -- 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