Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:40 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Luca Presotto" <Luca.Presotto@cern.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Various X errors (difficult to see) Message-ID: <87prto85uv.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <9A6A62B6B84859469F3EBB5F09D818CA01778F05@cernxchg50.cern.ch> (Luca Presotto's message of "Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:18:45 %2B0100") References: <9A6A62B6B84859469F3EBB5F09D818CA01778F05@cernxchg50.cern.ch>
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:18:45 +0100, "Luca Presotto" <Luca.Presotto@cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a freebsd 7.0 release with xorg 7.3 installed on a i386 with a
> NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Official nvidia drivers installed and
> apparently no problems. In the xorg.0.log file there aren't any
> errors, glx is correctly loaded etc..
>
> My system starts without X and then I use startx to start X server and
> KDE3.5 (if I'm not wrong about the version).
>
> Some errors are written on the console and I'm not able to see them!
> To see them I have to stop X (with ctrl+ bkspc) and use scroll lock to
> see what's there.
You can grab most of the errors by redirecting both standard `output'
and standard `error' to a file, i.e.:
bash$ startx 2>&1 | tee logfile
Then, after you exit X11, keep a copy of `logfile' around, and see if
you can make more sense of the errors :)
- Giorgos
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