From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 19 17:54:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF2F37B7E2 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id CAA06003 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:54:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA48339 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:17:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: XFree86 support? Date: 20 Apr 2000 01:17:31 +0200 Message-ID: <8dleqb$1f65$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000418234554.C7054@fettuccini.unix-ag.uni-kl.de> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christian Weisgerber wrote: > We have an AXPpci33 here that we're currently trying to re-install. > So far the chosen Linux distros have given us installation trouble. > If none work out, I might be able to push for BSD. Well, we may end up re-installing some Linux distro after all (I'm outnumbered), but today we tried FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. Hint: Don't reuse an existing Linux disklabel. The installation will work fine, however, the bootstrap on the disk will crash leaving you with a system you can't boot. Redoing the install, this time deleting and recreating all partitions, fixed this. Apart from this, which isn't FreeBSD's fault I guess, the whole installation procedure went very smoothly. XFree86 seems to work, too. "X -indirect " will crash xdm, though. Has anybody seen this? I can provide the xdm configuration details. No, it's no basic xdm setup problem. We're using this configuration on a variety of Linux/BSD hosts. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message