Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:32:59 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: John Indra <john@naver.co.id> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT and -STABLE against XFree86 4.0.2 problem Message-ID: <20010130013259.A6855@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010130132200.A451@naver.co.id>; from john@naver.co.id on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:22:00PM %2B0700 References: <20010130132200.A451@naver.co.id>
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Thank god other people are having trouble with XFree86 4.0.2 and the i810 chipset, I was beginning to think I was going crazy. Even the guys in #freebsd (irc.openprojects.net) think I'm an idiot because I can't get it working =) The problem is actually worse than a simple lockup. The server crashes whenever I change virtual terminals. When I try to go back to ttyv8 (which holds my Xserver), it crashes with a "Fatal Error: lockup" message. An attempt to restart the server will show me a garbled-color screen, and then my display shuts off altogether, until I reboot (my monitor tells me the scan frequency is out of range; I don't know what's going on in there). I'm certainly not a code warrior, and I have absolutely no experience with agp-related programming in X or otherwise, but I did try to patch it (failing miserably). I've noticed that the I810FreeGART function is commented out in the driver, which leads me to believe that Linux automatically handles GART cleanup when the memory is no longer needed. However, if the FreeBSD agpgart code does not handle cleanup, it could be the source of this bug, since the xserver would then be unable to gain access to memory. Just a thought, remember that I know nothing about AGP programming. I would really like to see this problem fixed. Currently I am using XFree86 4.0.1, which bothers me simply on principle that I can't upgrade :) Thanks, Andrew Hesford -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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