From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 14:44: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6EE37B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.152.198) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39CB0979001A64C7; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:43:54 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:44:42 GMT Message-ID: <20001002.22444200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: X problems after 4.1 upgrade To: Kirk Brogdon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001002125156.A10374@bsd1.alaptech.com> References: <20001002125156.A10374@bsd1.alaptech.com> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/2/00, 9:51:56 PM, Kirk Brogdon wrote regarding= =20 X problems after 4.1 upgrade: > I recently upgraded from 3.4 to 4.1 and now X locks up as soon as I=20 run it. I am using a Cirrus 5446 card, NLX board and AMD K6 processor. = =20 This all worked fine on 3.4. Even if I try to to run the X link=20 directly (by-passing the window manager) all I get are a bunch of pretty= =20 colors and no way to break out other than the reset switch. > I've re-installed xf86 and ran xf86config about 50 different times to = the same result. If I run the graphical setup (Xf86Setup) the screen is= =20 jittering and degrades to the point that it is unuseable. I've tried=20 the SVGA, vga16 and generic servers but no luck. > Any ideas? Dear Kirk Brogdon, After upgrading from 3-S to the (then) 4-CURRENT, I met with annoying=20 X problems -- IIRC, PAM-related errors, albeit my configuration WAS=20 correct. In the light of some remark I had read somewhere, I recompiled X and=20 the problems faded away... HTH a little, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message