Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:22:40 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help troubleshoot the nvidia driver and x display problem Message-ID: <200412171322.41397.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <20041217055937.33459.qmail@web51102.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041217055937.33459.qmail@web51102.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Friday 17 December 2004 05:59, rain cip wrote: >... > kdm: Abnormal termination of greeter for display:0, code 1, singal 0 > (the line above repeats five times) > init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleepinnng 30 secs You see this kind of thing whenever kdm has trouble starting X, but what you really want is the underlying error message from xorg. As a first step comment out the kdm line in /etc/ttys, and then start KDE (or whatever) with startx. One, fairly obvious, thing to do is autogenerate a new xorg.conf file, and make your nvidia changes on that.
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