From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 9:17:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3EE37B408 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15She2-000Jjj-00; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:17:50 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f73GHnr30721; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:17:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:17:49 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: William Richard Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20010803171749.D25346@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <01080308113300.00854@saffron.my.domain> <20010803163045.C25346@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <01080308485501.00854@saffron.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <01080308485501.00854@saffron.my.domain>; from wdr@tdl.com on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:48:55AM -0700 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 Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:48:55AM -0700, William Richard wrote: | 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? No blanking or any apparent progress toward creating the X display. It dumps a bunch of messages to the screen (and log file) like X always does, then says: Fatal server error: Caught signal 10. Server aborting. | 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. Chips and Technologies 65555 on a Toshiba laptop | And maybe we should move this off freebsd-stable, as I wonder how | -STABLE-related this conversation is... Hmmm. It sure would be nice if version 4.x were as well integrated with -stable as 3.x was. There, now it's related to the list. ;-) | scha.den.freu.de (n) [German, from Schaden damage + Freude joy]: | enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others I only had 2 years. I forgot most of it, with no one around to practice with. jm -- "Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck by a missile." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message