From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 21 15:50:01 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 3E9E4106566B for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:50:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6758FC19 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:50:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2LFnbJT068141; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:49:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080321104606.026b26d8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:51:30 -0500 To: "Luca Presotto" , From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <9A6A62B6B84859469F3EBB5F09D818CA01778F05@cernxchg50.cern.c h> References: <9A6A62B6B84859469F3EBB5F09D818CA01778F05@cernxchg50.cern.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080321-0, 03/21/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 15:50:01 -0000 At 09:18 AM 3/21/2008, 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. >I found the console full of "X error: bad window parameter" (and some >numbers and parameters which I can't remember) >Then I find a lots of warnings about kde problems (about loading arts >daemons). >Except for these errors that I wouldn't be seeing if logging in directly >in a graphical environment everything seems to work fine. >So I have some questions: is this way of reporting errors correct? >Can this be the related to the fact that when I try to use compiz-fusion >it starts but it's way too slow and uses a lot of cpu? >Should I worry about these errors? >How can I solve them?? (They seem really too generic) > >Thank you! You should run startx and redirect the output to a file and check the errors and then try to fix them. To do this try: startx >/tmp/somexerrorlogfile 2>&1 -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.