From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 19: 3:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (att-98-60-141.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EE637B41D for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:03:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd.smnolde.com) by smnolde.com with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16fuNT-000P5e-00; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:03:35 -0500 Received: from scott by bsd.smnolde.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16fuNR-000K6K-00; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:03:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:03:33 -0500 From: "Scott M. Nolde" To: Noone Here Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 -configure causes lock up Message-ID: <20020226220333.B76813@smnolde.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from oldtlhingan@hotmail.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:47:47PM -0500 X-Disclaimer: If you can read this you're looking for too much Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My ESP is failing me today. What kind of video card and motherboard do you have? And do you have any other description for the hardware and configuration for this computer? - Scott Noone Here(oldtlhingan@hotmail.com)@2002.02.26 21:47:47 +0000: > whenever i try to configure XFree86 my entire computer freezes - i cant use > my keyboard to do anything, my mouse pointer disapears and i cant use ctrl-c > or ctrl-bkspace to break out of whatever is happening. i cant even switch > screens to try to control it or stop it from there. > > my output (i copied by hand): > XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) > Release Date 2 June 2001 > If the server is older than {blah blah blah} > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386 [ELF] > Module Loader present > (==) Log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue Feb 26 21:33:46 2002 > > it freezes here. i dont know what to do so i shut the power off and restart. > then fsck finds some errors due to not being shut down properly... the only > weird thing i can see here is that im running 4.5-STABLE not 4.4. also, one > of the problems fsck finds, an unref file, has the date and time of the log > file above. fsck clears it, but whats going on?? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message