My machine is a DEC Alpha PC164LX with SRM and a Matrox Millenium II video card (VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2164W [Millennium II] (rev 0).) I'm trying to install Gentoo using~alpha(unstable) packages which includes XFree 4.30. I've been happily using RH 7.1 with XFree 4.03 for a while now, but it is time to move on. I can get X to come up but when I try to exit my window manager, it won't return to text mode. Instead I get a blank screen and my monitor lights start to flash demonically (these are lights for changing various monitor settings). I can't get to any of the other consoles and my only recourse is to reboot by ctrl-alt-del. Some things I've noticed so far: 1) I get hundreds of these messages in my XFree logs: Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10 I read some posts about this error which all seemed to recommend upgrading to the latest versions of things. I'm already at the latest XFree, glibc, gcc, etc. and I have rebuilt things several times to no effect. 2) When X first starts up it brings up the video card initialize screen twice. 3) X won't start at all unless I specify the card BusID in the config file, even though I only have one video card. Otherwise I get something like this: (II) VGA: Generic VGA driver (version 4.0) for chipsets:generic (WW) VGA: No matching Device section for instance(BusID PCI:0:5:0) found (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found 4) I've tried every possible XF86Config permutation I could think of, using xf86config, xf86cfg, editing by hand, using config files that have worked before. I always get the same results. Although I should say that sometimes the lights flash demonically, sometimes not. Is there a way I can try a generic vga driver instead of mga? If I try putting "vga" or "vesa" it tells me driver not found. Any ideas? Allen --
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