Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 06:00:01 -0800 (PST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/2138: Cannot start X windows on Dell PentiumPro200 64Mram Imagine128 II VC (4M) Message-ID: <199612081400.GAA10122@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/2138; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: jan.zorz@siol.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/2138: Cannot start X windows on Dell PentiumPro200 64Mram Imagine128 II VC (4M)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:47:47 +0100 (MET)
As jan.zorz@siol.net wrote:
> >Synopsis: Cannot start X windows on Dell PentiumPro200 64Mram Imagine128 II VC (4M)
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: serious
> >Priority: high
> >Responsible: freebsd-bugs
XFree86 :-)
> I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz Dell machine with 64Megs of ram. Ihave Number9
> video card Imagine 128 II with 4Megs of ram. I also have Adaptec SCSI
> controller and Barracuda 2G disc. There are no problems, except with X
> windows. I tried all posibilities (VGA, SVGA, all modes......everything)
Not all... what you need is XF86_I128, obviously.
It hasn't been available in XFree86 3.1.2, but is now in version 3.2.
> , but whenever I start /usr/X11R6/bin/X my moniteur change to graphic
> mode and then machine do hard reboot. I tried with "./W >> boot.txt" or
> "./X | tee boot.txt" but file is empty. Can you tell me why ?
You forgot to redirect stderr. For csh:
./X >& boot.txt
For Bourne-alike shells:
./X 2>&1 > boot.txt
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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