From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 25 20:44:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08AF416A4BF for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0FE43F93 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:44:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willyyam@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org) Received: from sillyrabbi (H241.C230.tor.velocet.net [216.138.230.241]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA9C1381C7; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:44:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from willyyam by sillyrabbi with local (Exim 3.20 #1 (Debian)) id 19rUkX-0000N5-00; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:44:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:44:05 -0400 From: William O'Higgins To: James Halstead Message-ID: <20030825234405.A1359@sillyrabbi> References: <3212.192.168.1.50.1061834316.squirrel@fsisrv1.fsisys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3212.192.168.1.50.1061834316.squirrel@fsisrv1.fsisys.com>; from jhalstead@fsisys.com on Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:58:36PM -0400 Sender: William O'Higgins cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mgapdesk crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 03:44:07 -0000 On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:58:36PM -0400, James Halstead wrote: >I am curious if anybody has had any luck using the mgapdesk port. A >friend of mine has a computer with a matrox g550 installed, after >a fresh install of 4.8, newest X port and running X -configure, >the mgapdesk program seems to just crash the X server every time it is >run. It generates a core file, but I am not diving into X that deeply ;p I found this problem as well, and got around it when I had the right permissions and environment. "sudo mgapdesk" didn't work, if I recall correctly. I had to "su -" and then run it. Or the other way around ;-) It does work though. -- yours, William