Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:22:35 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: "Charlie Root" <root@takiweb.yi.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pissed!!! Message-ID: <00ef01c04391$73cce2a0$0201a8c0@alton1.il.home.com> References: <200010311342.IAA00323@takiweb.yi.org>
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Hi, You may want to change your tone a bit. There are some very knowledgable people on this list who are willing to help you, but they are also volunteers and don't take kindly to rude postings. Now then, I too had some problems when I setup FreeBSD for the first time. In order to help with your problem we need to know a little more information. For instance, does the monitor seem to go into powersave mode? Have you tried different Xfree settings? Have you checked the output of the dmesg command to see if there was anything strange? Victor Cardona ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Root" <root@takiweb.yi.org> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <liberty6@twcny.rr.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:42 AM Subject: pissed!!! > 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! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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