From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 22:02:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107231065686 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:02:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hermante@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1138FC23 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:02:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hermante@gmail.com) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so8788040gxk.19 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:02:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=CjsFQa4L9nYDC/E7/x0eVqpghkZXQlDH1ZDHs7d++co=; b=OoqvqnUQgKdR/cC9vkkm15jCe21FXMMU0R9W1FVcmHOiJBME7Yijs5OGzJfesykrYr apRlQLWfUsCbrmx+WDc4qupRa+2i2B0bmRrSJGA6csV85yW9Za9PrVkp+k0+tk9D8a64 WzMCy1uiUA76DnBNslti7WfRzKIPBL2j8dXMI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=Yei6mVj3wSoH1FRvAy/m+/gUrdIRfHRBGHBX3dZ1smFJRlrGHDlV4t8eQQA9Bxsfta Ss0ziwk6qSvAwvpDtUXhtyiz+EjjORtWFMDVraKeemAqR43d6mPxpGoueNkqMiQWxSS3 Slr6HOsnnHMx8QDEzIemG1OWFyT+aHtMGKz0o= Received: by 10.100.126.19 with SMTP id y19mr1919955anc.151.1222466527050; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.232.16 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <68efd1c70809261502v628eb2d8o8091d94172f4a807@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:02:06 +0100 From: "Herman Te" To: "Glen Barber" In-Reply-To: <4ad871310809251743l33bf937ex79a2492fcd3a9486@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <68efd1c70809251709r69e541d5nc321b9b554fdef1@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310809251743l33bf937ex79a2492fcd3a9486@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server crashes on exit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:02:08 -0000 In case this helps anybody, I fixed the 2 min startup by adding my machine's hostname to /etc/hosts, and the crash problem is fixed by installing the latest xf86-video-savage port. I wonder why the sysinstall doesnt know how to figure this out when installing and build the prot for me? Well anyway that was a good introduction to FreeBSD. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > No, a 2 minute startup of Xorg is not normal. > > What kind of video card? Do you have the proper drivers for your > video card installed? I've noticed on several flavors of Linux with > my particular card (nVidia Geforce 8600 or something) that if I do not > have the correct nVidia drivers, exiting X results in a system lockup. > > -- > Glen Barber >