From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 03:07:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37A816A4CE; Wed, 11 May 2005 03:07:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C41E43D73; Wed, 11 May 2005 03:07:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-065-184-196-020.ec.res.rr.com [65.184.196.20])j4B37M0V001611; Tue, 10 May 2005 23:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <428179C3.3090900@ec.rr.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 23:19:31 -0400 From: jason henson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050426) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Davis References: <20050511003146.GA28025@endersgame.net> In-Reply-To: <20050511003146.GA28025@endersgame.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-ia32@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/i386 lockups with Xorg & Radeon cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 03:07:27 -0000 Sean Davis wrote: >Hello, first let me enumerate the hardware I've seen this happen on: > >1) Athlon XP 2700+ > 1GB DDR333 > ATI Radeon 9200 AGP8X w/ 128MB > >2) Athlon XP 2200+ > 1GB DDR333 > ATI Radeon 7000 AGP4X w/ 32MB > ATI Radeon 7500 PCI w/ 32MB > >3) Athlon XP 2200+ > 1GB DDR333 > NVidia GeForce4 AGP8X (I think) w/ 32MB > ATI Radeon 7500 PCI w/ 32MB RAM > >On machine #2 (which is also machine #3), I'm trying to do a dual-head setup. >Currently the primary video card is an AGP Geforce4. But that doesn't seem >to matter. > >On all of these setups (9200, 7000, 7500) xorgcfg hardlocks the machine. No >matter what I do. > >Xorg works just fine in Linux on the same hardware. (but no dual-head, despite >config hacking, however that is a discussion for elsewhere) > >XFree86 4.5.0 under NetBSD works just fine with every Radeon on this list. > >Hence, I'm left to conclude that it's a combination of Xorg and FreeBSD - >Windows works, NetBSD works, Linux works. I've tried both 5.3-RELEASE and >5.4-RELEASE, both of them die just as well. > >I *REALLY* want to get rid of windows on machine #2/#3, but it's simply not >an option without a usable dual-headed desktop setup, as that is my work >machine. However, if I can't even get xorgcfg to run without the machine >needing a three finger salute, it's simply out of the question. I can't run >NetBSD or OpenBSD on it, because I need something that I can deploy quickly, >with up-to-date binary packages, something that neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD >provide. > >Does anyone have any insights to this problem? Please respond directly, I am >not subscribed to either freebsd-ia32 or freebsd-questions. > >TIA, >-Sean >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Do you have an nforce chipset on the motherboard? I do and I have never had any version of x to work with dri on a radeon. So disable dri if it is on and try again. Also are you getting any error messages? You can check /var/run for the x logs from the last running of x. Does x lock after the startx command, or randomly later on while you are using x?