On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:17:28 +0100
Eike Dehling <e.e.dehling@student.utwente.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i have been having some trouble getting XFree86 going. I recently 
> purchased an AlphaPC164SX which i am trying to setup as a second 
> workstation.
> 
> I tried many things, and currently am stuck with one issue: the computer 
> freezes prettty much immediately after i start X, and i can't see 
> console messages. It stops responding to pings, so i think it has a 
> kernel panic (i found several messages on the internet saying this too).
> 
> How do i get to see the console messages? When i use a serial console, i 
> can't start X at all because it fails to find a TTY to run on. If i put 
> in a second video-card to use as console the machine won't boot at all. 
> (the second card is ok, if i put it in on it's own, the machine will 
> happily boot using it as console)
> 
> I'm kind of out of options, imo. The only thing i could think of is 
> possibly kgdb via a serial line; but does that give me console messages? 
> Or am i doing something wrong with the serial console, is it perhaps 
> possible to start X when using a serial console?
> 
> Any hints are very appreciated!
> 
> greetings,
> 
> Eike Dehling.
> 
> PS: graphics cards are a matrox/g200 and a s3/Vision968.
> 
> 

Hi,

This is a known problem (known to me at least ;) on 164SX. 
Option "NoInt10" in Section "Screen" will make it work.
(But you can only use -one- card this way.)

Btw, have a look at http://www.caseydoodle.com/index1.html.

-tnn