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Subject: Re: X-Server hard crashes when started
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Justin Wolf wrote:

>   Every time I try to start X-Windows, it hard crashes the system. 
> Meaning, all telnet activity is halted, the console screen goes blank
> (losses signal), console interactivity is halted.  I have to push the
> reset button in order to get anything back. 

The kernel may be panicing.

>   I have properly (as far as I can tell), set up the configuration files
> via both the shell config program and the X-like interface (making me
> think that this is not a problem with the video, mouse, keybd, etc). 
>   The system is a 486-50 w/ 32MB RAM and plenty of free drive space
> (over 200MB on the drive with X on it and over a gig elsewhere) with a
> Diamond Viper VESA SVGA card (which I'm using as a Generic VGA card
> until I can at least get the thing to start). 
>   I'm running 2.2-RELEASE and the latest version of X11 from the ftp
> site. 
>   Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you. 

Try to capture the X server output and post that.

>   (Also, please tell me where to direct X questions in the future...) 

You can try xfree86@xfree86.org.


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major