Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:14:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@pirzyk.org> To: pirzyk@pirzyk.org, wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, jim@pirzyk.org Subject: Re: XFree86 on a DS10 Message-ID: <200210111714.g9BHEKfs004660@zephyr.pirzyk.org> In-Reply-To: <20021011191112.B12975@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:32:19AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > > > Schroeder, Aaron writes: > > > > This may not be it at all, but I had some problems with my Miata and the > > > > XFree86-4.1.x release. > > > > > > > > When I would go to configure X with 'XFree86 -configure' my machine would > > > > die and go back to the SRM... > > > > > > > > When I put my Matrox card behind the PCI-Bridge, i.e. in one of the 32-bit > > > > slots, things worked fine. > > > > > > > > Maybe you could try and put your video card in a 32-bit slot? > > > > > > He doesn't have any, its a ds10. > > > > > > Don't run -probeonly. Alphas don't like their PCI buses blindly > > > groped at. Just setup a conservative XFree86 config file via the text > > > based setup and go from there. > > > > So I ran startx and it still hung the system. Is there a way to > > disable the PCI probe module from being executed? > > > > I also am wondering if this problem is related to the floppy disk > > not working on some systems (but it does work in mine, but I think > > that is related to the amount of memory in the system). > > How much memory do you have? My DS10 has 256M and that has a non-working > floppy. 1GB - JimP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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