From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 4 20:14:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02709 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:14:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02698 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (root@saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id UAA27660; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:13:46 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id UAA06327; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:13:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:13:22 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Scott Myron cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE problems/questions In-Reply-To: <36683C30.3DB47CA0@hsonline.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Scott Myron wrote: >Hello. I have a few quesitons and problems with FreeBSD 3.0. > >My first is, i installed the Xuser set. When i try to "startx" i get an >error with /usr/X11/R6/bin/X >then my shell hangs till i ctrl-c it. my question is, has anyone ever >had that and does anyone know how to fix that. Run X -probeonly >& /tmp/file and read the /tmp/file to see if it tells you why X is failing to start. You may have an error in XF86Config. >My seconds question is, i want to keep up with the -current kernels. Do >i have to cvsup all of the source, or can i just download and compile >the kernel source, since i'm running a full ELF system? I was answering the first question more than this one but what the heck. I had mix and match kernels and binaries for a while and had no troubles. Better hackers than I said it wasn't a good idea so I upgraded all the source and I still had no troubles. This decisive answer should help you immensely. :) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message