From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 17: 2: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164B537BC54 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bigotfo@bigfoot.com) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn6-ras24.screaming.net [212.49.247.6] (may be forged)) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA23176 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 00:04:26 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logginf init and X output Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 01:01:37 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG j mckitrick wrote: > >I know that dmesg shows the kernel output during bootup, but as the init >messages fly by, the are getting lost, especially when the console = clears >after changing a font or size. Also, i would like to see all the output >from X as it starts, so that i can whittle down my Xfree86 config and = also >maybe catch a few mis-configs that might be slowing it down. This = output >also scrolls away quickly. I tried redirecting to a file, but that = doesn't >seem to work: > I'd be interested to hear any methods you find to speed it up. I'm = running XFree86-4.0.1 on a 500MHz AMD and it takes about a minute to load/run. I don't remember 3.3.6 being so slow. John. --=20 P.A.S. The Power to Swerve. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message