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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:17:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      <randall272-fbsd@yahoo.com>
To:        Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@yahoo.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: why Xorg and XFree86 > 3.3.6 crash on my box
Message-ID:  <20041122181723.543.qmail@web50610.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041116131537.88041.qmail@web50609.mail.yahoo.com>

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--- Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well I'm not sure exactly but I do know now that there is an x86 emulator of
> sorts built into XFree-4 and therefor Xorg too and the function of the
> emulator
> is to run the BIOS code from the video card.  I'm fairly certain that the X
> server crashes in the emulator during startup.
> 

It was pointed out to me that adding

Option      "NoInt10"

to the Device (video card) settings in the xorg.conf file works.

I'm up on Xorg now on AS 1000A w/Matrox Mystique.  I will be trying a Millenum
card in a few days.





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