From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 8:49: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tdl.com (tdl.com [206.180.224.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C906637B406 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdr@tdl.com) Received: from saffron.my.domain (pm5-87.tdl.com [206.180.234.87]) by tdl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA25379; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:42:27 -0700 Received: (from wdr@localhost) by saffron.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f73Fmux09051; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:48:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdr) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: William Richard Organization: William Richard & Associates Ltd To: j mckitrick Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:48:55 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <01080308113300.00854@saffron.my.domain> <20010803163045.C25346@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20010803163045.C25346@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080308485501.00854@saffron.my.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 03 August 2001 08:30, j mckitrick wrote: > Well, unless there was a subtle config problem I am unaware of. I > saw a line in the log complaining about an illegal x86 extended > instruction, but the program kept running. It died before opening a > display. Did your screen change modes (maybe it went blank, maybe it clicked, maybe it popped a message up on the screen) before the X server died and left its ghoulish corpse on your hard drive? What sort of display hardware are you using? Doesn't happen to be a Matrox video card, does it (mine is)? I tried turning off various options in the config file, changing bit depths, etc., but had no joy... Still works under XFree86 3.3.6 at 32 b/p without a whinge. Yes, I did search the web (in Lynx, since my X server was not working at the time) for other people reporting similar problems. Found a few, but only questions, never answers. Feels like an old Chinese riddle. And maybe we should move this off freebsd-stable, as I wonder how -STABLE-related this conversation is... > | (Finally, after reading every one else's posts about how XFree86-4 > | works flawlessly on their machines, let me indulge in a degree of > | schadenfraude... > > Sorry, but what is 'schadenfraude'? scha.den.freu.de (n) [German, from Schaden damage + Freude joy]: enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others Being German, it should actually be capitalised. That's what I get for writing e-mail so early in the morning. -- Cheers, William Richard wdr@tdl.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message