Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:31:44 +0200 From: Simon Sandlund <orbb@bredband.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 making screen periodically blank Message-ID: <20020402203144.629cae3c.orbb@bredband.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0204021152290.58423-100000@odin.egate.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0204021152290.58423-100000@odin.egate.net>
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:03:32 -0500 (EST) William Denton <buff@pobox.com> wrote: > I upgraded XFree86 to the latest port version last night, and this morning > when I tried it out it didn't work right. It started up OK, then after a > few seconds the screen went black and then flashed back on, making an > electrical whooshing sound like monitors make. It happened again, and > again, then there was a delay, then it happened again and again. I > restarted X a few times, I checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but nothing > looked serious. There were two warnings: > > (WW) ATI(0): Failed to set write-combining range (0xf0000,0x10000) > (WW) ATI(0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer. > > I use fvwm2, and the way I have things set up, the Alt-Fn keys should pop > up menus. They didn't-seemed like the Alt key wasn't being noticed. I > thought it might be the window manager that didn't get along with the new > X, so I installed the newest version from the ports, but that didn't fix > things either. I'd start X, it'd come up, be OK for a few seconds, then > blank off and come back, sometimes staying on for several seconds, > sometimes going back off almost immediately. > > Does anyone have any idea what this might be, or what I could look for? > I'm using an ATI Mach 64, and FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE upgraded about a week > ago. XFree86-4.1.0_12,1 worked perfectly for me, and I didn't change the > XF86Config. > > I haven't tried my ati mach64 card with freebsd, but on linux and Xfree 4.2.0 with my mach64 I'm also having my screen flashing like that, but with a longer delay. The "vesa" driver works fine for me but unfortunatly it's too slow, but maybe you could try that just to get it working. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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