Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:19:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@pirzyk.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: XFree86 on a DS10 Message-ID: <15783.2054.388551.155982@moe.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <200210111632.g9BGWJ1h004554@zephyr.pirzyk.org> References: <15782.59357.740537.376822@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200210111632.g9BGWJ1h004554@zephyr.pirzyk.org>
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Jim Pirzyk writes: > > 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? Specifiy a BusID for your card. BusID "PCI:<bus>:<slot>:<func>" Use pciconf -lv to get this info Eg, "PCI:0:17:0" Fred does have a very good point. I think that the ATI cards present some problems for bios emulation. I really think you should try a glint/permedia based card. > 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). > Totally orthogonal. But I'd like to get that fixed too. Its a bug in how we setup Scatter/Gather DMA on tsunami. Its my bug, I wrote that code. But I"m damned if I see what I did wrong. Can you get me remote access to your machine? (and a serial console would be handy too). Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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