Xfree 4.3 on an old CHIPS-F65554 graphic card

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 16:24 +0100, Ivo Marino wrote:
> I've recently installed Ubuntu Warty on an old Pentium-MMX (200MHz)
> `noname` notebook. The distributions works fine and all basic hardware
> is supported: PCMCIA, PCMCIA Wi-Fi card, etc.
> 
> I have just a problem with X (XFree 4.3) and the onboard Chips &
> Technologies graphic card, model is F65554.
> 
> Each time is start the X server my system freezes completely and all I
> can do is to power off (or reset) the machine.

If you edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, put Option "NoAccel" and Option
"SWCursor" in the Device section.