From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 01:05:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA12354 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA12340 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id SAA27204; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 18:04:40 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19970803180440.07410@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 18:04:40 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Sherwin Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-3.3, FBSD-2.2.2 & ViRGE/VX References: <33E42F5E.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <33E42F5E.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com>; from Sherwin on Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 12:12:30AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 12:12:30AM -0700, Sherwin wrote: >I am having a similar problem. See Problem Report bin/4189. It appears >to be related to my use of ppp on a modem on cuaa3. I am running 2.2.2 >off the CDROM, with the XFree86-3.3 and the SVGA server, with a Matrox >Millenium. If user ppp is not running, I can restart X as many times as >I like. With user ppp running, I get the freeze immediately after the >carriage-return is echoed. I have yet to figure out why or how to fix >it. Anyone have an idea? cuaa3 (aka COM4) has an I/O address clash with quite a few graphics chips. I didn't know that this was specifically a problem with the Millennium, but then I haven't checked. It is known to be a problem for most chips that have their roots in the old IBM 8514/A (like S3 and ATI chips). However, I'd expect such a lockup to happen after the Xserver had printed out its initial startup messages. Do you see the same problem if you use a different serial port for ppp? David