From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 19:22:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB0F737B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eA13Kaq82525; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:50:36 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:50:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Charlie Root Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, liberty6@twcny.rr.com Subject: Re: pissed!!! Message-ID: <20001101135036.T79472@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200010311342.IAA00323@takiweb.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200010311342.IAA00323@takiweb.yi.org>; from root@takiweb.yi.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:42:25AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 31 October 2000 at 8:42:25 -0500, Charlie Root wrote: > Dear freebsd.org, > I am PISSED!!! I used to be a winblows user, converted to Linux, and > ran OpenBSD for a few months. But since I've installed the $49.99 > CompUSA boxed version of FreeBSD 4.0, when I run startx my system > crashes! Is this what you consider to be "rock-solid stability??" > Sometimes when I run startx, I get X to work. The other times, my > system crashes to a point where I need to do a physical powerdown > of my machine, cause even ctrl-alt-del wont work. > I have a pentium 2 300MHz class machine, with an SiS 5598 > video board. Nobody in the chat rooms knows anything about what I'm > talking about. And I am PISSED!!! OpenBSD was working great (even via an > ftp install!) But no, FreeBSD wants to be the luser in my box!! > What should I do to fix this problem??? > Please email me with the fix! Reinstall OpenBSD. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message