From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 00:33:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA11101 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panix.com (panix.com [198.7.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA11093 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 00:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jbarrm@localhost) by panix.com (8.8.5/8.7/PanixU1.3) with SMTP id DAA06896; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 03:33:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 03:33:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Masterson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: FreeBSD-current Subject: Re: XFree86-3.3, FBSD-2.2.2 & ViRGE/VX In-Reply-To: <688.870590262@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I seem to remember reading on the -questions mailing list that > > XFree86-3.3 was not fully supported on the FreeBSD 2.2.2-R > > system. > > It's not the default XFree86 for it, but it's more than usable with > 2.2.2. I don't know who told you it wasn't supported. One or two letters from -questions that mentioned the recent CD releases, and how XFree86 on those releases were optimized for the current branch. I may have misinterpreted those letters. > > My question is, Is there anything specific to FreeBSD 2.2.2-R > > that needs to be changed to best run XFree86-3.3; such as > > Nope. Thank you. Had to ask. > > The reason I'm asking, is that while 3.3 runs fine on this system, > > the XF86_SVGA server fails to restart after the first 'startx' > > session is closed on a freshly booted system. (running startx > > a second time results on a frozen keyboard and a blank screen). > > That's weird - I can't say that I've seen this happen with my own > XF86_SVGA server (running 2.2-stable). I'm still looking around here for clues. It's a SCSI setup, might just be a bad cable. Or as the IBM UltraStar manual says, the screws might be too long, causing a short. Barry Masterson jbarrm@panix.com >--->--->--->--->---> FreeBSD 2.2.2-R <---<---<---<---<---<