Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:17:49 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: William Richard <wdr@tdl.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20010803171749.D25346@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <01080308485501.00854@saffron.my.domain>; from wdr@tdl.com on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:48:55AM -0700 References: <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <01080308113300.00854@saffron.my.domain> <20010803163045.C25346@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <01080308485501.00854@saffron.my.domain>
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:48:55AM -0700, William Richard wrote: | On Friday 03 August 2001 08:30, j mckitrick wrote: | | > Well, unless there was a subtle config problem I am unaware of. I | > saw a line in the log complaining about an illegal x86 extended | > instruction, but the program kept running. It died before opening a | > display. | | Did your screen change modes (maybe it went blank, maybe it clicked, | maybe it popped a message up on the screen) before the X server died | and left its ghoulish corpse on your hard drive? No blanking or any apparent progress toward creating the X display. It dumps a bunch of messages to the screen (and log file) like X always does, then says: Fatal server error: Caught signal 10. Server aborting. | What sort of display hardware are you using? Doesn't happen to be a | Matrox video card, does it (mine is)? I tried turning off various | options in the config file, changing bit depths, etc., but had no | joy... Still works under XFree86 3.3.6 at 32 b/p without a whinge. Chips and Technologies 65555 on a Toshiba laptop | And maybe we should move this off freebsd-stable, as I wonder how | -STABLE-related this conversation is... Hmmm. It sure would be nice if version 4.x were as well integrated with -stable as 3.x was. There, now it's related to the list. ;-) | scha.den.freu.de (n) [German, from Schaden damage + Freude joy]: | enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others I only had 2 years. I forgot most of it, with no one around to practice with. jm -- "Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck by a missile." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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