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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:58:34 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
To:        Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
Cc:        Gabor PALI <pgj@freebsd.org>, DS@praxisvermittlung24.de, "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@freebsd.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Introduce Xorg 7.4 to the X11 configuration section
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Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Manolis Kiagias
> <sonic2000gr@gmail.com <mailto:sonic2000gr@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>     > Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>     >
>     I just revised the patch using the 'retro' option, most of the
>     text was
>     removed, please have a quick look at this:
>
>
>     http://www.freebsdgr.org/handbook-mine/x-config.html
>
>
>
>
> I have installed FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 RC2 .
> The related message is as follows :
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-April/049654.html
>
> (1)
>
> When steps described in the section 5.4.2 of page
>
> http://www.freebsdgr.org/handbook-mine/x-config.html
>
> it is not possible to start X :
>
> # xorgcfg
>     xorgcfg : command not found
>
> # xorgconfig
>    xorgconfig : command not found

These don't exist in Xorg 7.4 (and probably haven't been around in the
last few iterations of Xorg)

>
> # Xorg -configure
>
> # Xorg -config xorg.conf.new
>
> Fatal server error : caught signal 11 . server aborting
>
> # Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro
>
> Fatal server error : caught signal 11 . server aborting
>
> # startx
>
> Fatal server error : caught signal 11 . server aborting
>

There must be some problem in your system if you are receiving signal
11. Please provide more info on your graphics card, motherboard etc. It
would also be better to send your question to -questions or -stable,
this is not a documentation problem.
>
> (2)
> In the Handbook , there is no any section dealing with such a case .

There are many possible causes for signal 11,  ranging from hardware
failures to weird incompatibilities.

>
> (3)
> In the same machine Solaris 10 , OpenSolaris , CentOS 5.3 , Windows XP
> Home is working .
> This is the first time I encountered this X11 problem with FreeBSD 7.2
> amd64 RC2 .
>

I don't have a suitable machine around, but if you provide more details
this can probably be worked out.  Please try -questions list.




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