Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:18:34 +0100 (CET) From: Johan Pettersson <pettersson.johan@spray.se> To: Charlie Root <root@takiweb.yi.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, liberty6@twcny.rr.com Subject: Re: pissed!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010311408300.15715-100000@ng4L117.i.spray.se> In-Reply-To: <200010311342.IAA00323@takiweb.yi.org>
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, 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! You have maybe configured XFree86 wrong!! If you were happy with OpenBSD why switch ? Johan -- Spray Network Services Stockholm | Sweden Cell: +46(0)708 402 836 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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