Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and XFree86-4.x ati driver lockup problem -- Solution
Jim <[email protected]>
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Brooks, Thanks for the tip. I recompiled my kernel and X is working just fine with acpi enabled. Hopefully my little adventure helps others... Best regards, Jim Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:41:16PM -0500, James wrote: > >>To the FreeBSD team, >> >>I struggled with this one for quite a while before figuring it out, so >>here goes... >> >>I had been using FreeBSD 4x for quite some time on my Compaq Presario >>1800. And, XFree86-3.6x worked nicely with the laptop's ATI Rage >>Mobility graphics chip. Unfortunately, the FreeBSD 4x branch didn't >>support the Atheros chipsets in some of the newer networking cards like >>the Netgear WG511, so I upgraded to FreeBSD 5.2.1. >>After that, I couldn't get XFree86-4x to work reliably with my laptop. >>It turned out that the X instability, which included complete system >>lockup, was caused by the ACPI module being loaded upon boot-up. >>Sometimes the Xserver would start-up sometimes not. Also, there was a >>guaranteed system lockup if you exited Xwindows and then re-entered >>Xwindows at a later time. In other words, you only got one Xsession per >>boot! So, after trying all sorts of things in XF86Config, and upgrading >> to XFree86-4.4 from XFree86-4.3 it turned out that all I needed to do >>was add the following line to my /boot/device.hints file... >> >> hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" >> >>After that everything worked great! Xwindows is stable, and my new >>Netgear WG511 card is working like a charm. > > > You might try building a kernel without SMP and apic. That let me use > my ATI Rage P/M Mobility reliably and still keep acpi enabled. > > -- Brooks > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"