Hi, I'm hoping somebody can help me with a problem I've been having using an onboard (Gateway Solo Laptop) Silicon Motion LynxEM graphics card. The problem is with XFree86 4.2 and 4.2.1 (but _not_ with 4.1 (I don't know about 3.3.x)), which suggests that something has been changed (I couldn't find any specific in the ChangeLog, although some XVideo support seems to have been added).
The sympoms I'm having are that as I run startx (with either a working
XFree86 config or a newly-generated XFree86 config) the screen goes
black, a few vertical lines flash up on the screen and then the screen
goes black again. It's not a resolution problem-type flash. The only
way I can then get back to the console is by sshing in and killall -9ing
XFree86 (ctrl+alt+fn or ctrl+alt+bksp don't work).
Here is the relevant (I think) section from my XFree86 log file (I can
provide a full output, if requested) and the Device section from my
config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Silicon Motion Lynx family"
Driver "siliconmotion"
ChipSet "lynxem"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "NoAccel"
EndSection
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a
(II) Silicon Motion(0): initializing int10
(=3D3D=3D3D) Silicon Motion(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x20000) was
already clear
(II) Silicon Motion(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(II) Silicon Motion(0): VESA BIOS function failed
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
Any help would be much appreciated as I've just upgraded to FreeBSD
5.0-RELEASE and I'm not really keen on installing old XFree86 4.1
binaries under FreeBSD 4 compatibility :)
-lewiz.
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