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From: swanton@river.biddeford.com (george p swanton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,io.support.unix
Subject: Re: X crashes keyboard then computer
Date: 2 May 1996 15:57:47 -0400
Organization: Biddeford Internet Corp.
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In article <4m6690$h0o@zot.io.org>, Brian Tao <taob@zot.io.org> wrote:
>In article <4m64kt$fl9@zot.io.org>, Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@zot.io.org> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas what's causing this? I couldn't think of
>> any more relevant info to include in this report, so if you've got any
>> questions about how my system is set up, please Email me or follow up
>> to the newsgroup.
>
> Which flavour and version of X server are you running?
At the risk of seeming like a real weenie, I'm having similar
problems that I dont seem able to resolve.
X basically takes the whole system down.
It survives superprobe but dies during X initialization (note that
-probeonly survives. By dies I mean that the machine hangs (wont
answer a ping) and may eventually reboot.
System is FreeBSD 2.1 from WalnutCreek CD, 'X User' install,
P5-90, 40M, Seagate 1G SCSI
aic0 driver IRQ 11 Port 340 BIOS@DC000
serial mouse on com1 (cuaa0) default settings
modem on cuaa1
SoundBlaster16 IRQ 5 IO 220 MPU401 330 DMA 3,6 (no FreeBSD driver configured)
SMC Elite16 (WD8013 compat) IRQ 10 Port 300 MEM D0000
The card is an ATI but I'm unsure of the model number or memory.
It is Mach32 and I run it at 1024x768x256@72hz under NT with no
problems. Card is also VLB.
SuperProbe output:
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: ATI 68800-6
Memory: 1024 Kbytes
RAMDAC: ATI-68875/Bt885/TLC34075 15/16/24-bit DAC w/pixel-mux
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
(programmable for 6/8-bit wide lookup tables)
Attached graphics coprocessor:
Chipset: ATI Mach32
Memory: 1024 Kbytes
I was able to use a telnet session from another NT machine to
capture some of the X output (redirect to disk doesn't get saved
due to crash (I guess))
[some text missing]
(**) Mach32: Monitor ID: "NEC5FG"
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6
/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" [editted to fit screen]
(--) Mach32: card type: localbus (486)
(**) Mach32: Number of Clocks: 32
(**) Mach32: clocks: 100.22 126.03 92.48 35.98 50.39 56.67 0.00 44.90
(**) Mach32: clocks: 135.06 31.98 110.01 79.94 39.87 44.86 75.00 64.97
(**) Mach32: clocks: 50.11 63.02 46.24 17.99 25.20 28.34 0.00 22.45
(**) Mach32: clocks: 67.53 15.99 55.01 39.97 19.33 22.43 37.50 32.48
[the above clocks are entered in XF86Config but are derived from
earlier X -probeonly output (ie these are what X thinks they are)]
(--) Mach32: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 135.000 MHz
(**) Mach32: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.175, clock used = 25.200
(**) Mach32: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 36.000, clock used = 35.980
(**) Mach32: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 44.900, clock used = 44.900
(**) Mach32: Virtual resolution: 1024x768
(--) Mach32: Display width: 1024
(**) Mach32: videoram: 1024k
(--) Mach32: Using hardware cursor
(--) Mach32: Using 4 MB aperture
(--) Mach32: Ramdac is ATI68875/TLC34075/Bt885
(**) Mach32: Using 6 bits per RGB value
(--) Mach32: Aperture mapped to 0xf00000 + 0x0
(--) Mach32: Using a single 64x64 area for expanding pixmaps
(--) Mach32: Using 8 planes of 960x255 at (0,768) aligned 8 as font cache
Perhaps I should have included XF86Config; however it was generated
with sysinstall.
Thanks in advance
gps
PS sorry to post so much garbage but without it, what's to comment on