Bug 4344

Dear sirs,

I'm running Gentoo with Xorg 6.8.2 compiled from the Gentoo eBuild.  However,
when I type startx, my whole system freezes.  I was forwarded to here by the
Gentoo developers.

The Gentoo bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104493

I also installed Xorg 6.8.99.15, which gave the same problem.  I tried both the
vesa and the vga driver.

Do you maybe have an idea what's going on?

Information from the Gentoo bug report:
I've emerged Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2.  However, when I try to run it, it takes my
whole alpha machine down.  I believe the settings in Xorg.conf are be ok.
Ferdy suggested to file a bug report.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge xorg-x11
2. configure X
3. startx

Actual Results:  
My monitor goes blank, it doesn't power down though.  When I do this while
connected via ssh to the machine, I loose my connection after a couple of
seconds.  After that, the machine doesn't responds to ICMP echo requests either...

Expected Results:  
Start and run X :)

Hardware:
Digital Personal Workstation 500a.  384 MB RAM.  S3 Trio64.

/proc/pci:
  Bus  1, device   8, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c775/86c785 [Trio 64V2/DX or /GX] (rev 20).
      IRQ 36.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc000000 [0xfffffff].

Emerge info:
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/alpha/2005.0, gcc-3.3.2,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.8 alpha)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11.8 alpha EV56
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe"
CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.be.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="alpha X arts berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds encode esd font-server
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++
libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib
perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY