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Date:      02 Apr 2002 10:43:04 -0800
From:      Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com>
To:        William Denton <buff@pobox.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 4.2 making screen periodically blank
Message-ID:  <1017772991.275.13.camel@borges.codysbooks.com>
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, 2002-04-02 at 09:03, William Denton 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'm also seeing this problem with XFree86 4.2.0 and I am also using an
ATI Mach 64 3D Rage Pro.  I'm currently holding at 4.1.0_13,1 which
works flawlessly.

-Scott


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