On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 @ 5:56pm (+0200), christoph.leuzinger@westworks.ch wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently installed NetBSD 1.6 on my i386 machine. I got the binary
> packages of the official release distribution.
>
> I have been running earlier releases of NetBSD on the same machine
> using XF86 3.3.6. Now I ran into troubles with the configuration of
> XFree86 4.2.0 which comes with 1.6. I'm using an ASUS V3000 video
> board with AGP and a NVidia Riva 128 chipset. The ancient XF86_SVGA
> server worked very well with that setup.
>


Interesting...is the kernel attaching to VGA1 in demsg? can you send your
demsg?

Also might check the miling list archives at:
http://XFree86.Org/pipermail/xpert/

-lava

>
> I configured XF86 with "xf86cfg" and it got the settings right as far
> I can see (I placed the configuration file at
> <URL:http://westworks.ch/~chris/XF86Config> and the log file at
> <URL:http://westworks.ch/~chris/XFree86.0.log>).
>
> The server won't start, though (it works if I change the driver to
> vga, but this only provides a poor resolution an depth). I suspect
> it's something to do with the remove MTRR messages, but I have no clue
> about this. I find it quite astonishing that it simply crashes without
> any further error messages.
>
> I also was unable to find reports on how to solve similar problems.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Chris.
> --
> Christoph Leuzinger                        <URL:http://www.westworks.ch/~chris/>
>

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