Re: alpha/67626 w/ 6.3-RELEASE
Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]>
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Kazuyoshi Furutaka wrote: > Hi all, > > From: Nathan Whitehorn <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: alpha/67626 w/ 6.3-RELEASE (Re: alpha/67626: X crashes an alpha machine, resulting reboot) > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:26:34 -0600 > >> I had this problem with xorg-server for a while (on a PC164). It >> turned out to be due to bad RAM. Replacing all 4 DIMMs with matched >> sticks solved the problem beautifully. Using the xorg vesa driver >> also worked. >> -Nathan > > Nathan, what X server are you using? (how did you build it?) > After seeing reboots caused by the XFree86-4 server, I've tried > to build xorg server using the ports but failed: `make install` > in /usr/ports/x11/xorg ended by saying > ===> xorg-server-1.4_3,1 does not run on ia64 alpha, while you are running alpha. This is with xorg-server. I had to patch it up a little to build. In particular, you need to remove the thing that says it doesn't run on alpha, and you need to patch it to link itself against libio. I don't remember where you need to do the second part -- it will become apparent though. -Nathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"