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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:00:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        "M.C Wong" <mcwong@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: [2.2.5] 2 problems with X server, please help
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980713110057.malte@webmore.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980713060425.28576.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On 13-Jul-98 M.C Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running 2.2.5R with the stock X server version (can't remember
> what it is now) and the actual X server binary is:
> 
> XF86_S3V 

What is your graphics-hardware ?

> 
> However, vey frequently, the X server will just get killed and
> with the follwing logs:
> 
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
> xinit: unexpected signal 1
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this problem ? This is annoying because I have
> to restart many of the process, and note I do not always start the
> same process so I don't put them all in .xinitrc file.
> 
> The other problem is that sometimes after X starts up, I get a
> blank X screen with no window manager or other clients specified in
> .xinitrc file at all

What do you mean by "blank" ? Just a black screen or does the X-server
come up (is there a graphical background ?) ?

> and I have to kill (ctrl-alt-backspace) that
> session and restart, but the next session will usually comes up with
> a frozen mouse pointer even though window manager and other X clients
> do start up properly. The only way out is to reboot the whole system
> before I can get it working, but sometime need a few reboot! Does any 
> one have similar problem like this ?

Seems to be a hardware conflict. What is your mouse-hardware and
how did you configure the kernel.

> 
> Should I go for the latest (which is ?) version of X server?

As last resort.

Malte.

> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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Date: 13-Jul-98
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