Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:30:33 -0500 From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> To: 'Charlie Root' <root@takiweb.yi.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: liberty6@twcny.rr.com Subject: RE: pissed!!! Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5F8@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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Send me your PII 300Mhz class machine, with Sis 5598. I'll reboot with my size 11s. Seriously, I hate SiS cards in regards to running with X. Go find a cheap S3 based card or something along those lines. Then load the right server, you'll be fine > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Root [SMTP:root@takiweb.yi.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:42 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: liberty6@twcny.rr.com > Subject: pissed!!! > > 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! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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