From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 11:56:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linus.highpoint.edu (linus.highpoint.edu [192.154.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F0B37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zhartley@localhost) by linus.highpoint.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9QIuQH05178 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:56:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:56:26 -0400 From: Zach Hartley To: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: startx = reboot Message-ID: <20011026145626.B5021@linus.highpoint.edu> Mail-Followup-To: "questions@freebsd.org" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mbartels@genie.de on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:52:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My friend had the same exact problem, turns out he didn't have enough fans in the system, causing it to overheat and reboot. Adding fans stopped it. Zach Around Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:52:44PM +0100, Matthias Bartels said something to the effect of: > Servus, > > i have a serious problem with my XServer, i posted it some days ago, > but it very strange so nobody could help me. > > Trying to start the Xserver using startx results in a system reboot! > > this is my hardware configuration: > > ASUS A7A266 > Athlon 1400 > NVidia GeForce2 MX-200 32MB > 512MB DDR RAM > > the components seem to work (i also run windoofs), > > and i tried several versions of XFree (package installation and from > source, 4.0.3, 4.1.0) and also FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.4 > > Nothing works! > > Is it possible that the graphic card with this chipset is not > supported? A friend of mine is using the same card with MX 400 > chipset, he has no problems! > > I am despairing... > > I have attached my XF86Config File and the last log message before the > crash! > > Thank you for your help. > > Matthias > > > Ringtones, Logos und crazy Mailbox Ansagen für Dein Nokia-Handy @ > www.genie.de -- Zachary Todd Hartley "Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" --Sideshow Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message