FreeBSD 4.9 + XFree86 4.3 + Alpha

[Stephen Agar]

Hi,
I just recently installed freebsd 4.9 on a DEC PWS 500au. Everything 
works fine except X. I realize that the problem more than likely isn't 
FreeBSD specific, its probably a problem with XFree but I thought you 
guys may be able to give me some advice. When I try to run "xf86cfg" to 
configure my xserver, it just hangs and takes 99% of the CPU. Ive also 
tried manually creating config files just to see if I got the same 
behavior, and I did. I have tried with a few different vid cards, the 
Cirrus Logic that was originally in this machine, an ATI Mach64, and an 
S3 Trio. It always hangs at the same spot in the log and takes 99% of 
the CPU. Here's an excerpt from the log file. Thanks in advance for any 
help, i'm thinking I may need to just wait for X 4.4, but i'm hoping 
someone out there has had better luck than I have.

****Start Log Excerpt***
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
         compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
         ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 1011,0019 card 0000,0000 rev 30 class 02,00,00 
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1080,c693 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,01,00 
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1080,c693 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 01,01,80 
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 1080,c693 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 01,01,00 
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 1080,c693 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 0c,03,10 
hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:14:0: chip 1011,0024 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,04,00 
hdr 01
(II) PCI: 01:04:0: chip 1077,1020 card 0000,0000 rev 05 class 01,00,00 
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:08:0: chip 5333,8811 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 03,00,00 
hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:0a:0: chip 1000,000f card 0000,0000 rev 04 class 01,00,00 
hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:20:0), (0,1,0), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 I/O range:
         [0] -1  0       0x00008000 - 0x00008fff (0x1000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
         [0] -1  0       0x80000000 - 0x808fffff (0x900000) MX[B]
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
         [0] -1  0       0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x100000000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
         [0] -1  0       0x80000000 - 0xffffffff (0x80000000) MX[B]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
         [0] -1  0       0x80000000 - 0xffffffff (0x80000000) MX[B]
***End of Log Excerpt***

--Stephen Agar