Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:44:05 -0400 From: William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins@utoronto.ca> To: James Halstead <jhalstead@fsisys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mgapdesk crash Message-ID: <20030825234405.A1359@sillyrabbi> 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 References: <3212.192.168.1.50.1061834316.squirrel@fsisrv1.fsisys.com>
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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
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