Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:43:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@onyx.interactive.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Crashing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311114151.15994L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310105608.405A-100000@penelope>
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Christopher J. Booth wrote: > I have a P133 with a Diamond Multimedia Stealth64 2001 video card with 1 > MB of RAM. Are you **sure** you only have 1MB? That's a teeny tiny amount for a modern card. Most come with at least 2, 4 is probably common. > I just did a reinstall of FreeBSD 2.2.5 on Friday. I haven't been able to > get X to work. I have spent inordinate time in /etc/XF86Config and decided > to start anew. The reinstall worked. I got X working Friday night, > mouse and all, and tried Enlightenment on my own account, FVWM2 on my root > account, and all seemed cool. Sunday night I got back to the computer, > without having used it in the interim (left it running, of course), and > now startx, xinit, XF86Setup, and going to XF86Setup via /stand/sysinstall > [both using existing /etc/XF86Config and not] all cause my machine to > crash. I get a gray monitor, and then can do nothing. > control-alt-backspace does nothing, and I end up having to do > control-alt-delete to restart. Why on earth did you run XF86Setup again if it's working?? Try xf86config instead of XF86Setup; I never have gotten XF86Setup to give anything useful without crashing. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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