Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-26 Thread Chris Cappuccio
w...@xoono.net [w...@xoono.net] wrote: pciide0 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 Acer Labs M5219 UDMA IDE rev 0x20: DMA (unsupported), channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility pciide0: channel 0 ignored (other hardware responding at addresses) pciide0: channel 1

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-17 Thread web1
Hello Brynet, thanks for the suggestion, I just finished installing 4.5-current using a snapshop, the BIOS did not have option for PP unfortunately. With this version I am having more problems, I still have the reboot problem when trying to execute Xorg, and still running Xorg under ktrace

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-17 Thread neal hogan
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 09:45:49PM +0100, w...@xoono.net wrote: Hello Brynet, thanks for the suggestion, I just finished installing 4.5-current using a snapshop, the BIOS did not have option for PP unfortunately. With this version I am having more problems, I still have the reboot

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-16 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:03 AM, w...@xoono.net wrote: Hello, I ran pcidump -vv as instructed and it also rebooted the machine, but it produced some output before that (which I have attached), and this output stops in the Chips and Technologies 65550 section, the last few lines of the

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-16 Thread web1
Hi, Sorry it took me so long to reply. I ran pcidump for every pci entry/device and none of them rebooted the machine, even non existent devices were reported as such (see end of the message attached). Sounds like a loop going astray?. If you have a pcidump with debugging symbols around I am

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-16 Thread web1
I just ran Xorg under ktrace and it worked! (and so did pcidump -vv) and there is an error message that might be the cause of the reboots: mtrr set failed: Operation not supported The machine has no external cache and if I am not mistaken L1 started with P6 (this is a Pentium 120MHz), so the

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-15 Thread web1
Hello, I ran pcidump -vv as instructed and it also rebooted the machine, but it produced some output before that (which I have attached), and this output stops in the Chips and Technologies 65550 section, the last few lines of the section are missing. I went back to Xorg and ran it in gdb,

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-14 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM, w...@xoono.net wrote: Hello, I just installed version 4.5 on a very old laptop (Texas Instruments Extensa 605CD), it was happily running 4.2 before. All the hardware seems to be recognised correctly on both versions but I am having a strange problem when

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-14 Thread web1
Hi Matthieu, thanks a lot for your message. After running memtest, I installed 4.2 yesterday again just to make sure that the laptop does work (someone suggested a memory problem), it does work fine with 4.2, so I am in the process of re-installing 4.5. I will try your suggestions and post the

Re: X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-14 Thread Brynet
Hi Tenoch, I'm the proud owner of several early P1-class systems like that, PCI interrupt routing is always.. sketchy. Some other options you might wish to try: * Look in the BIOS for a setting similar to Plug Play OS, set that option to No.. this will force the BIOS to setup some hardware

X -configure command reboots machine

2009-06-13 Thread web1
Hello, I just installed version 4.5 on a very old laptop (Texas Instruments Extensa 605CD), it was happily running 4.2 before. All the hardware seems to be recognised correctly on both versions but I am having a strange problem when trying to configure Xorg, the command X -configure reboots