Alpha vs. FreeBSD 5.4 vs. X

[Andrew Elmore]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:51:12AM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote:
> I don't expect anybody to know what's really going on here; all I really
> want is for somebody to drop me mail that says "yeah, don't bother trying
> to run X on DS10 FreeBSD 5.4/Alpha; it doesn't work" or "X works just fine
> on DS10 FreeBSD 5.4/Alpha; you're a bonehead".

After lots of pain, I finally got X up on my DS10, and also my PC164SX,
both using old Matrox cards.  In my case, the trick was turning off
WITNESS in the kernel config file.  

At this point, X seems quite stable.  If I could get Mozilla to run
without crashing I'd be a happy man.

Good luck!
Andrew