Re: startx hard locks machine

[e <eliab@spack.org>]

does using simply xinit do the same thing? perhaps the problem is in
generating the xauth info?

* mlists (mlists@konjz.org) wrote:
>I'm trying to install OpenBSD on a A7V333 board with AMD XP 1800+ and
>starting X hard-locks the machine every time. I've tried 3 different
>cards so far, all AGP: Matrox G200, Riva TNT2 and Geforce 2 GTS. I
>tried nv driver for NVidias, and also vesa and vga. The machine has 256
>megs of PC2100 ram (1 chip), a hard drive and a floppy. I did a
>network install off of my fileserver of 3.1-release, and 3.1-snapshot.
>Also I did play with BIOS. Mailing archives, google and deja didn't
>help much, the closest I got was that some nvidias on laptops had
>problems, and they work with vesa, but mine doesn't work with any
>driver. I don't have a PCI videocard to try at the moment, but I don't
>understand wtf I'm doing wrong..Does anyone know what I can try next?
>Is this a lemon board, some other hardware problem, or something else?
>Thanks.
>
>bruno
>---
>OpenBSD 3.1 (GENERIC) #59: Sat Apr 13 15:28:52 MDT 2002
>    deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
>    cpu0: AMD Athlon Model 6 (Palomino) ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class)
>1.54 GHz
>cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SIMD
>real mem  = 268005376 (261724K)
>avail mem = 242712576 (237024K)
>using 3297 buffers containing 13504512 bytes (13188K) of memory
>mainbus0 (root)
>bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(2f) BIOS, date 04/17/02, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf1a70
>apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
>apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
>pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x2122
>pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xf2050/208 (11 entries)
>pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA VT82C586 PCI-ISA" rev 0x00)
>pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
>bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x9c00
>pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
>pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8366 Host-PCI" rev 0x00
>ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8366 PCI-AGP" rev 0x00
>pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
>vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Nvidia Riva TNT2" rev 0x15
>wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
>wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
>cmpci0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "C-Media Electronics CMI8738/C3DX
>Audio" rev 0x10: irq 10
>audio0 at cmpci0
>uhci0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x50: irq 5
>usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
>uhub0 at usb0
>uhub0: vendor 0x0000 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>uhci1 at pci0 dev 9 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x50: irq 11
>usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
>uhub1 at usb1
>uhub1: vendor 0x0000 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x3104 (class serial bus, subclass USB,
>rev 0x51) at pci0 dev 9 function 2 not configured
>ne3 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "Realtek 8029" rev 0x00: irq 10
>ne3: address 00:40:05:47:f9:56
>pcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x3147
>rev 0x00
>pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: DMA,
>channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
>wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD400BB-00AUA1>
>wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38166MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 78165360 sectors
>wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
>uhci2 at pci0 dev 17 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x23: irq 9
>usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
>uhub2 at usb2
>uhub2: vendor 0x0000 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>uhci3 at pci0 dev 17 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x23: irq 9
>usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
>uhub3 at usb3
>uhub3: vendor 0x0000 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>isa0 at pcib0
>isadma0 at isa0
>pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
>pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
>pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
>wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
>pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
>pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
>wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
>pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
>midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
>sysbeep0 at pcppi0
>lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
>npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
>pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
>pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
>fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
>fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
>biomask 4a60 netmask 4e60 ttymask 5ee2
>pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
>mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
>dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
>root on wd0a
>rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
>WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
>uhub0: port error, restarting port 1
>uhub0: port error, restarting port 2
>uhub0: port error, giving up port 2
>uhub1: port error, restarting port 1
>uhub1: port error, giving up port 1
>uhub1: port error, restarting port 2
>uhub1: port error, giving up port 2
>uhub2: port error, restarting port 1
>uhub2: port error, giving up port 1
>uhub2: port error, restarting port 2
>uhub2: port error, giving up port 2
>uhub3: port error, restarting port 1
>uhub3: port error, giving up port 1
>uhub3: port error, restarting port 2
>uhub3: port error, giving up port 2

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