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Date:      Sat, 7 Mar 1998 12:28:26 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Ashley <ashley@labyrinth.net.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X problem :(
Message-ID:  <19980307122826.31096@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803070150.MAA16590@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au>; from Ashley on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 12:48:32PM %2B1000
References:  <199803061115.WAA14498@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au> <199803061115.WAA14498@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au> <19980306223337.39047@freebie.lemis.com> <199803070150.MAA16590@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au>

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On Sat,  7 March 1998 at 12:48:32 +1000, Ashley wrote:
> At 22:33 06/03/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Fri,  6 March 1998 at 22:13:35 +1000, Ashley wrote:
>>> last week i purged my computer of Linux and installed FreeBSD. i had the X
>>> Windows System up and running fine. a couple of days ago i upgraded to
>>> FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE.
>>>
>>> after i did a "make world" and recompiled the kernel X is now causing me
>>> problems. i can load X after i boot. however, if i then exit X, and try to
>>> run it again the system hangs, requiring a reboot. i have no idea why this
>>> is happening.
>>>
>>> any help or ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.
>>
>> One message is enough.
>>
>> What's your hardware configuration?
>
> sorry about the two messages. the first bounced back.
>
> anyway....
>
> i reinstalled FreeBSD lastnight (not because of this) to increase my
> FreeBSD partition
> size. i decided to get X running before i upgraded to STABLE. the problem
> occured with the 2.2.5-RELEASE.
>
> when i tested FreeBSD for the first time before i switched from Linux, this
> problem did not occur with 2.2.5-RELEASE. i am using exactly the same
> hardware setup now as when it worked fine.

Hmmm.  Can you try it again with the GENERIC kernel?

> my hardware is :
> STB Velocity video card (S3 VirgeVX)
> PPro200
> 128mb RAM
> IDE HD's

Nothing obvious there.

Greg

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