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To: "Alexander, Robert" <Robert.Alexander@i-bridge.com>
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Subject: Re: question about things that quit working (or work differently between 
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> "Alexander, Robert" wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I have been playing around with FreeBSD 4.0 and 4.1.1.   I have
> noticed that some things behave differently under 4.1.1 than
> they do from 4.0.
> 
> First, If I install 4.0 directly, everything works ok... no
> problems with this release
> 
> But, if I fresh install 4.1.1, the X server doesn't work (I get
> a garbled screen with many multi-colored pixels, even the VGA
> server doesn't work). Also, the console mouse support doesn't
> have the little pointer icon, it is merely a bunch of text
> characters which makes it hard to use.
> 
> I am using the iso images that I downloaded... I am relaltively
> sure that they are good and that the image on the CD is good. I
> get no errors during the install... those items just don't
> work.

I downloaded and installed 4.1.1 from the iso on 3 machines, all 
differant, and had no problems whatsoever. One machine is a new
box
running AMD Athlon 733 and matrox G400 video card. The other two 
boxes are older Pentiums ( 166 and 100 if I remember corectly).

-- 

 
> Are these known issues? Are there any plans to use XFree 4.0.1
> in an upcoming release? Will the 4.2 release fix any of these,
> or am I the only one who has experienced them?
> 
> My hardware is a DELL Optiplex GX110 (PIII - 500 MHZ)
> 128 MB RAM
> 10 GB HD
> NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (16 MB RAM) video
> ESS 1371 Sound chipset
> 3com 3c905C chip set
> 
> I have had no issues with the kernel or anything like that.
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> Robert  A. Alexander
> Sr. Systems Administrator/Systems Architect
> Enterprise Services
> I-bridge
> *<mailto:robert.alexander@i-bridge.com>
> (  (704) 969-2223
> 
> 

-- 
Chip W.	
www.wiegand.org
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