Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:51:16 -0400 From: jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Sean Davis <dive-d@endersgame.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/i386 lockups with Xorg & Radeon cards Message-ID: <4282E0C4.9050901@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20050511103034.GC28269@endersgame.net> References: <20050511003146.GA28025@endersgame.net> <428179C3.3090900@ec.rr.com> <20050511103034.GC28269@endersgame.net>
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>>> >>> >>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. >> >> > >No. Both motherboards are VIA chipsets, one is an ASUS and one is an ASRock. >(although I've been told that ASRock is a low-budget division of ASUS, dunno >whether that's true or not.) > > > >>Also are you getting any error messages? You can check /var/run for the >>x logs from the last running of x. >> >> > >Nope. Just locks the machine. > > > >>Does x lock after the startx command, or randomly later on while you are >>using x? >> >> > >It locks as soon as the X server starts. I can start it with X -configure, >xorgcfg, or just plain `X', it doesn't matter - as soon as it starts trying >to initialize the display, it locks up. > >-Sean > > > Sounds like a driver problem. Are you loading dri. Post a copy of xorg.conf.
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