From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 9:21:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD07D37B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 09:21:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.ninth-circle.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9THKtY43230; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:20:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:20:55 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Jakob Buck Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xfree86 setup problem Message-ID: <20001029182055.C39491@lucifer.bart.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jakob.buck@mail.dk on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 04:27:55PM +0100 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hej Jakob, -On [20001029 16:35], Jakob Buck (jakob.buck@mail.dk) wrote: >Im not in the mailing list, but I have a problem installing FreeBSD 4.1.1. That's not good. >When I come to the configuration of the xfree86 server, I choose >"graphic setup", choose my mouse, graphic card, resolution etc., >it starts to restart x to test the configuration. > >It's here it goes wrong, now the only thing that happens is that a >white square appers the the upper left corner, and nothing else ? > >I can kill the session by using ctrl+alt+backspace, but I can't continue >the installation because of errors, and I would hate to install FreeBSD >without xfree86. Erhm, so you don't have a problem installing FreeBSD, but only XFree86, which is a third party piece of code. Some suggestions: - continue installation of FreeBSD without X for now and after finishing the installation of FreeBSD, log in and start /stand/sysinstall as root and then retry X. - have a look at www.xfree86.org for more details on what goes wrong - Try to bother http://www.bsd-dk.dk/ -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl And if it comes, the living will envy the dead... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message