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>Yes, it certainly is. vblank_mode=0 will disable it. |
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That changed it from 60 to 299, with no other changes. |
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Since Matt Turner has been reading: |
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I am probably going to file a bug on mesa-10.3.1. It has stopped me |
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from building firefox or seamonkey. Changing VIDEO_CARDS didn't help me |
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this time. Mesa-10.0.4 is the last one marked stable for alpha and it |
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works here. I tried a newer mesa than 10.3.1, but it failed too. |
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I will attach the last 10.3.1 emerge info to the bug report. |
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Is there any other info I can provide that will help? |
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>the older ones have a problem where a bus-master DMA transfer |
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I read in the FreeBSD documentation that some MX-5 models had a hardware |
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workaround from the factory. Since the problem hadn't revealed itself |
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with my other cards, I was hoping that might apply. Now I know for sure |
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that mine is a bad one. |
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>The more recent SRM versions include a whitelist of known-good |
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devices, and will refuse to boot |
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The AphaBIOS side tells you about "illegal" cards too. It doesn't even |
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like the DEC SCSI card. The original Matrox card is the only one I have |
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that passes. |
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>Try and find out. |
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Of the 3 ~identical alphas I saved from the garbage truck, this is the |
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best one and I'm happy to find a combo that works. If I had another |
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free monitor, I might try another. |
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Actually, in the mean time, I came up with a Matrox G550. I was hoping |
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it might have a driver advantage too, even though the card was weaker |
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than contemporary ATI/nVidia offerings. The kernel driver doesn't list |
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G550 as a choice, but Xorg says their driver does go up to G550. |
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Whatever. I'll think about it some other time. |
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Adios, DW |