FreeBSD/i386 lockups with Xorg & Radeon cards

[jason henson]

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>>Do you have an nforce chipset on the motherboard?  I do and I have never 
>>had any version of x to work with dri on a radeon.  So disable dri if it 
>>is on and try again. 
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>No. Both motherboards are VIA chipsets, one is an ASUS and one is an ASRock.
>(although I've been told that ASRock is a low-budget division of ASUS, dunno
>whether that's true or not.)
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>>Also are you getting any error messages?  You can check /var/run for the 
>>x logs from the last running of x. 
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>Nope. Just locks the machine.
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>>Does x lock after the startx command, or randomly later on while you are 
>>using x?
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>It locks as soon as the X server starts. I can start it with X -configure,
>xorgcfg, or just plain `X', it doesn't matter - as soon as it starts trying
>to initialize the display, it locks up.
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>-Sean
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Sounds like a driver problem.  Are you loading dri.  Post a copy of 
xorg.conf.