From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 18:34:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3DE37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0273C43FBD for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 14143 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2003 01:34:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Aug 2003 01:34:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h781fwu02738 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:41:58 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:41:58 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@localhost.localdomain To: FreeBSD-questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: How can I check for swap space? (4.8-Release) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 01:34:44 -0000 Freebies - Back again, still thrashing. Naturally the usual hangups for a new installation are X-windows and networking, then printing. Networking is fine, and I don't plan to hang a printer on this box. That leaves &*^%!! X-windows. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, John Mills wrote: > I will mostly run services and ssh console sessions, so that might be > enough. However I also wanted to run some lightweight X11 setup so I > installed 'fvwm2' and have a 'mostly working' XF86Config. When > [ordinary-user] I execute 'startx' the system gradually fills all of RAM > and swap then locks up the X-server. Granted my space is small, but this > still looks wrong to me. > > My '~/.xinitrc' is a one-liner: "exec fvwm2". Now it just says: "fvwm2" Same result, perhaps a bit slower. The X11 display is badly formed in two ways: 1) It looks as though horizontal sync is not solid, because I see two overlaid images on the screen, so the letter "I" looks like: "II", and 2) The cursor on the screen is displaced from its "logical" position, so that buttons are highlighted when the cursor moves to some point far from where the button appears on the screen (and "click" there brings on the appropriate response). > Any ideas what's happening? Yes, well ... any ideas? John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu