From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 7 17:20:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CCF37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from salome.ny-myth.com (ool-182e984d.dyn.optonline.net [24.46.152.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA1043E42 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from horen@ny-myth.com) Received: from salome.ny-myth.com (localhost.ny-myth.com [127.0.0.1]) by salome.ny-myth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA81KmI7002925; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:20:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from horen@ny-myth.com) Received: from localhost (horen@localhost) by salome.ny-myth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id gA81Kl6q002922; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:20:47 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: salome.ny-myth.com: horen owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:20:47 -0500 (EST) From: Horen To: Terry Lambert Cc: Eric Anholt , Subject: Re: XFree In-Reply-To: <3DCB0D16.98DB875B@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20021107201759.Y2788-100000@salome.ny-myth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Horen wrote: > > > You stated "Typing blind starts X again". > > > > > > Can you tell us what you mean by this? > > > > > > o It restarts X, as if you typed "startx" > > > > Exactly that. > > The problem is clearly in the X11 code, then, since it is not > resetting the card to the video mode it was in before X started. > > You would do well to look at the XFree86 mailing list archives, > since your answer is likely to be there (this is not a FreeBSD > specific problem, if it is not happening because of FreeBSD > specific code). > > The only possible way this could be a FreeBSD specific problem > is if you were using, e.g., the AGP driver, and it wasn't working. > > You said it worked bofore; probably the place to start is "what > changed betewwn 'before' and 'now'?". > > -- Terry > On FreeBSD 4.6 or 4.7 works, on FreeBSD 5.0 it doesn't work. Don't you think it is OS related. ? I even installed Linux RedHat 8.0 ( gcc 3.2x ) code. It works. Only on FreeBSD 5,0 , it doesn't work. -Horen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message