Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:51:29 -0800 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: "Alexander, Robert" <Robert.Alexander@i-bridge.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about things that quit working (or work differently between 4.0 and 4.1.1) Message-ID: <3A12A2F1.8F02BCF7@wiegand.org> References: <C86B573FBF0BF84CAF961D6E5863ED2B062E1C@clt0003.i-bridge.net>
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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 Alternative Operating Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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