Re: [Dri-devel] DRI on dec-alpha/linux. A report.

[Andy I. <adi...@mr...>]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:33:33AM +0000, Abraham Theodorus Stolk wrote:
> dec-alpha LX164/533Mhz board
[snip]
> The mga driver is much worse: It crashes my system in a very
> bad way. When running it, the machine simply does a hard-reset,
> and starts booting again. Phew.

This is a known bug with XFree86 4.0 on some Alpha systems.  There
should be a patch available soon, I think; some people seem to
understand the problem and are debating the best way to fix it.

The problem involves how the X server maps the PCI space, and some
oddities in the Alpha architecture.

-andy
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