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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Xdvi crashes Mach32 Server ???
Date: 1 Aug 1995 16:24:36 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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Message-ID: <3vldf4$kc0@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pilhuhn.de
Hi all!
Recently I installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 and a lot of the packages which mostly
worked just fine (fvwm, ghostscript, emacs ...).
I keep having a lot of trouble with Xdvi, though.
When I run the XF86_Mach32 server, Xdvi displays the first few characters
of the DVI file, then the server crashes.
Further, it leaves the board in such a state, that subsequent tries to
start the server (xdm does this automatically on my machine) fail.
The server then reports, my board had only 512 k of video memory which
surely is not enough for 1152x864x8 ;-)
Rebooting the machine fixes the latter problem, but of course I can't run
xdvi.
Seemingly there is no "real bug" in xdvi, since when I run the SVGA server
instead of Mach32 everything works fine. Ktrace output shows that xdvi makes
intensive use of mmap() - maybe the memory management system get's confused
by the linear framebuffer aperture of the ATI board?
BTW: hardware configuration: ;-)
ATI GUP EISA, 2MB
486 DX2/66 EISA with 16MB RAM
If anyone thinks he can help if he get's more information (ktrace the X server,
XF86Config, whatever), I'd gladly supply that.
Thanks in advance
Paddy.
P.S. With 1.1.5.1 xdvi worked - but since then nearly everything has changed.
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