Re: [TCLUG:18801] Weird slow X4.0 Startup

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Yaron wrote:
> 
>   Hi,
> 
> Ok, I had to take the nvidia card out of my wife's machine and put an old
> S3ViRGe card in it's place. I setup X4.0 for it, and it does work fine,
> but it takes several minutes to start.
> 
> Here's what happens in the log file. It gets up to:
> 
> (II) S3VIRGE(0): initializing int10
> (II) S3VIRGE(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA Bios detected
> (--) S3VIRGE(0): Chipset: "virge dx"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
> (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.0, module version = 1.0.0
> 
> Then it sits there for like 20 seconds and goes:
> 
> (II) S3VIRGE(0): VESA VBE DDC supported
> 
> ...and THEN it waits around 2 minutes before going on:

Interesting..  It looks like XF4.0 is trying to use the card to
communicate with the monitor and get configuration information from it. 
The communication times out, so XF4.0 reports a greyscale display..  I
imagine your monitor is not greyscale, though ;-)  You probably want to
look for a way to disable the Vesa DDC detection, and then set up the
monitor sync rates, etc, the old-fashioned way..

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