From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 21 15:17:11 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 7F1B51065671 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:17:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA588FC1A for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile-rio.ondsl.gr [83.235.57.37]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m2LFGkOk019844 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:57 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2LFGeXs003951; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m2LFGeIx003950; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Luca Presotto" References: <9A6A62B6B84859469F3EBB5F09D818CA01778F05@cernxchg50.cern.ch> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9A6A62B6B84859469F3EBB5F09D818CA01778F05@cernxchg50.cern.ch> (Luca Presotto's message of "Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:18:45 +0100") Message-ID: <87prto85uv.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m2LFGkOk019844 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.478, required 5, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL -0.08, BAYES_00 -2.60, FB_WORD1_END_DOLLAR 1.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Various X errors (difficult to see) 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, 21 Mar 2008 15:17:11 -0000 On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:18:45 +0100, "Luca Presotto" 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