From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 8:52: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr (diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A0C737C3ED for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 29344 invoked by uid 1465); 6 Jul 2000 15:49:08 -0000 Message-ID: <20000706154908.29343.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:49:08 +0300 (EET DST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 problems on 3.x MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello there, i have installed a couple of times xfree 3.3.6 but my workstation at work seems to have some serious problem with them, and i thought i might drop a note in case anyone has seen this and can help me ;) problem #0: the screen flickers at the right end, when i move windows around when 'opaque move' is set to *on*. i think that this might be bad bad timings, but i haven't tweaked the 'standard' modes of xf86config's output. problem #1 (more serious): at (seemingly) random intervals X will lock my keyboard dead, but not the mouse, and i can only recover by ssh'ing to my machine from a near-by workstation and killing X. some times, even killing X does not work and it will leave my console displaying strange ascii-graphics characters, or funny colors in text mode. since i haven't provided any information on my system's setup, here it is: - FreeBSD 3.x cvsup'ed almost daily - XFree 3.3.6 installed from ports - my kernel config is derived from GENERIC with some changes to add support for my ps/2 mouse and keyboard. has anyone seen this happen? wha would you suggest, other than throwing by hardware in flames ? ;) - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message