Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:50:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Charlie Root <root@takiweb.yi.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, liberty6@twcny.rr.com Subject: Re: pissed!!! Message-ID: <20001101135036.T79472@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200010311342.IAA00323@takiweb.yi.org>; from root@takiweb.yi.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:42:25AM -0500 References: <200010311342.IAA00323@takiweb.yi.org>
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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
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