From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 19:20:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA07684 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 19:20:23 -0800 Received: from gateway.us.sidwell.edu (gateway.us.sidwell.edu [198.3.254.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA07679 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 19:20:16 -0800 Received: (from lcozzens@localhost) by gateway.us.sidwell.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id WAA11819; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 22:20:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 22:20:25 -0500 (EST) From: Lisa Cozzens To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: X problem... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5 (will upgrade to 2.1.0 as soon as my subscription disc arrives) on a Pentium 120. I'm having a problem with X When it works, it's great. Unfortunately, I'm afraid to edit config files, since it seems like whenever I do, X won't start again. I've run xf86config multiple times and reverted to a "safe" /etc/XF86Config to no avail, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware config problem. What happens is if I type startx, X seems to load OK and I even see the default screen with the little "x" mouse cursor, but before olvwm kicks in, X exits with no error message and returns me to the prompt. It's got all the Ramdac and mode stuff on the screen and just a line saying "Waiting for X server to shut down." BTW, I'm running a Diamond Stealth Video 64 DRAM card with 2 MB of DRAM and in running xf86config, I selected the 37th card available in the card database. I'm running whatever version of XFree came with 2.0.5; I think it's 3.1.1. Please let me know if upgrading to 2.1.0 will fix this problem, as I can live with it for a few more weeks. Thanks -- and BTW, I had three other questions, but a search of the FreeBSD mailing list archive revealed the answers to all three! Great job, whoever maintains that! Lisa ____ Lisa Cozzens (lcozzens@sidwell.edu) (o | WWW Home Page: http://www.sidwell.edu/~lcozzens/ \ "We are what we consistently do; excellence, therefore, ========= is not an act but a habit." --Aristotle