From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 17:29: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF57737B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:29:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B4443E75 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:29:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249]) by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA94531; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:28:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 17:28:42 -0800 Subject: Re: xfree86 failing From: "Paul A. Scott" To: Charles Pelletier , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <015301c285f9$5ca281a0$32040101@hume> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've now tried about 10 different times to configure xfree86server 4.2.1. > each time, the process 'seems to have failed.' ideas as to why, anyone? You might be having the same problem as me, and many others. Try running XFree86 from the command line, rather than from sysinstall. See if you get a signal 11. Check /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see where the problem occurs. What video hardware are you using? Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message