Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 05:03:11 EST From: sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: X Windows crashes big-time Message-ID: <9602260503.D8475on@edmbbs.iceonline.com>
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I have a problem with X Windows crashing on a FreeBSD 2.1 machine. It's not just a little crash- the whole machine freezes, and we have to use the reset button. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and Ctrl-Alt-Delete don't have any effect. I type startx to go into a freshly installed Xwindows, and it works for a few seconds. I can move the mouse around, but before I get a chance to do anything, the machine dies. The system is a Pentium-100, Asus Triton motherboard. 16 megs of 60ns EDO ram. 256k burst pipeline cache. 1GB Quantum HD on an Adaptec 2940 SCSI-2. Video card is Diamond Stealth 64 (2MB VRAM) on PCI, using 640x480x256 mode. I'm using the S3 server, and I selected the Diamond Stealth Pro as the video card in the config (the vid card manual says the 64 is backwards-compatible with the Pro). No clocks line or RAMDAC selected. The mouse is a Logitech Mouseman, and I've selected Mouseman in the config file. Also have an SMC EtherPower 10/100 in 10Mbps mode. Nothing strange in the FreeBSD setup... Everything installed from the 2.1 CD. A couple of directories are NFS mounted, and the system only has at most one or two users at a time. Works great outside of X. When X comes up, the window title fonts look a bit strange, like there are pixels missing in some of the characters... I don't know if that's normal, as I don't remember what the default TWM fonts look like (I use FVWM at home). When the system freezes, the mouse pointer is not visible on the screen... I may be shooting in the dark, but I would guess that maybe the mouse driver is dying in the middle of moving the pointer. I don't very much about X, though. We need this machine to run X, as it's going to be for creating web pages and web page graphics. Any help would be appreciated.
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