FreeBSD 6.0 Stable with 3dfx voodoo3
Eric Anholt
eta at lclark.edu
Mon Nov 7 13:24:31 PST 2005
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 07:08 -0600, Michael Bowerman wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a kernel issue or an Xorg issue. Maybe someone could
> point me in the right direction.
>
> I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.0 stable on one of my boxes. It was working
> with Gnome on 5.4 perfectly fine. But, after the upgrade, it gives a black
> screen, hangs, then reboots. I noticed that it says something about a kernel
> panic causing reboot.
>
> I thought that maybe I screwed something up, since this was my first freebsd
> upgrade. So, I reinstalled (and repartitioned) the whole OS from the cd. I
> was able to reach the terminal just fine. But, as soon as I enabled Gnome,
> It locked again and then rebooted. I'm pretty sure that the Xorg.conf file
> is set up correctly.
>
> I think the problem has something to do with the 3dfx card, because it's
> been a big trouble for me (that's why it is on my test box).
For anyone to help you, they need the panic message and probably a
backtrace. Serial console (talked about in the handbook) is a good way
of getting a backtrace.
--
Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt at FreeBSD.org
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