On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:27:12PM -0800, lewiz wrote: > none2@pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x2550107b chip=0x0710126f rev=0xa3 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Silicon Motion Inc' > device = 'SM710 LynxEM' > class = display > subclass = VGA > > Description: > > When starting X with startx (and using a generic XF86Config, generated with >xf86config) the screen goes black, then flashes two vertical greeny coloured lines >and then goes black again. The machine is then virtually unusable until I remotely >ssh in and kill -9 the X server. I think it is something to do with the VESA stuff >(see the bottom of the attached output log). > This problem occurs with both 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 but _not_ with 4.1(.x?). I have not >tested 3.x but I suspect it might work (since everything but Permedia2 cards seemed >to work with that ;). > I also believe that this might be a FreeBSD-specific problem because I had no >problem installing and running RedHat 8.0 (which has XFree86 4.2.0 according to >http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/).
<snip> > (II) Loading sub module "int10" > (II) LoadModule: "int10" > (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a > (II) Silicon Motion(0): initializing int10 > (==) 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 <snip> Above are all of the relevant details for my Bug Report. After more extensive searching I have found a solution to this problem -- it occurs on both FreeBSD and NetBSD for certain and quite possibly OpenBSD. I have seen one report of similar problems for Solaris. It can be resolved by adding: Option "NoUseBIOS" to the device section of the XF86Config-4 file. Is there any way that this can be added as a default by xf86config and the other configurators if the OS is detected as one of those mentioned above as I am sure it will save a great many peole much hassle. Many thanks, -lewiz. -- Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
