why Xorg and XFree86 > 3.3.6 crash on my box

[randall272-fbsd at yahoo.com]

--- Kenneth Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well I'm not sure exactly but I do know now that there is an x86 emulator of
> sorts built into XFree-4 and therefor Xorg too and the function of the
> emulator
> is to run the BIOS code from the video card.  I'm fairly certain that the X
> server crashes in the emulator during startup.
> 

It was pointed out to me that adding

Option      "NoInt10"

to the Device (video card) settings in the xorg.conf file works.

I'm up on Xorg now on AS 1000A w/Matrox Mystique.  I will be trying a Millenum
card in a few days.