Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:41:30 -0800 From: Justin Wolf <jjwolf@bleeding.com> To: Justin Wolf <jjwolf@bleeding.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: X-Server hard crashes when started Message-ID: <01BC4088.8E3B1D60@crimson>
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I'm afraid I'm a bit new to this... which program should I capture? xdm, xstart, x (and what it links to), xinit, or which? Thanks for the help... I'd like to get this up and running. -Justin Wolf ---------- From: Doug White[SMTP:dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 1997 3:33 PM To: Justin Wolf Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: X-Server hard crashes when started On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Justin Wolf wrote: > Every time I try to start X-Windows, it hard crashes the system. > Meaning, all telnet activity is halted, the console screen goes blank > (losses signal), console interactivity is halted. I have to push the > reset button in order to get anything back. The kernel may be panicing. > I have properly (as far as I can tell), set up the configuration files > via both the shell config program and the X-like interface (making me > think that this is not a problem with the video, mouse, keybd, etc). > The system is a 486-50 w/ 32MB RAM and plenty of free drive space > (over 200MB on the drive with X on it and over a gig elsewhere) with a > Diamond Viper VESA SVGA card (which I'm using as a Generic VGA card > until I can at least get the thing to start). > I'm running 2.2-RELEASE and the latest version of X11 from the ftp > site. > Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Try to capture the X server output and post that. > (Also, please tell me where to direct X questions in the future...) You can try xfree86@xfree86.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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