From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 6 04:14:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27132 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 04:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27115 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 04:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from bergelmir.ifi.uio.no (2602@bergelmir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.172]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id NAA06298; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:14:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by bergelmir.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:14:21 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Nicholas Charles Brawn Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware error & graphics References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 06 Oct 1998 13:14:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: Nicholas Charles Brawn's message of "Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:13:02 +1000 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA27123 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nicholas Charles Brawn writes: > I've been trying to set a jpeg as my background recently using xv. > However, each time I attempt to do so, xv core dumps, and I get a > message on console regarding some VM (not certain atm - not at affected > box) error - "probably hardware". The line i use for xv is: > # xv -root -quit /path/to/pic.jpg The text of the error message would sure be nice. (Doh! I forgot error messages were written for decoration and that the actual wording is useless!) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message