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Date:      16 Feb 1998 18:30:38 -0600
From:      stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>
To:        Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: shared memory
Message-ID:  <87d8gn139t.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: Patrick Gardella's message of "Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:36:44 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <XFMail.980216143644.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>

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Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> writes:

> Greetings all.  
> 
> I am trying to run xquake on my 2.2.5 system.  If I run it immediately upon
> starting the machine and X, I have no problems.  But if I do stuff first (use
> xfmail, netscape, etc) and then try it I get a:
> Error: VID: Could not get any shared memory
> 
> VID_Shutdown
> 
> None of the other programs are running.  Even if I shutdown X and then restart,
> I get the same error.
> 
> Is there any way to free the shared video memory (I am assuing its video,
> since I have more than enough RAM)?  I am running XFree86 3.3.1 and an STB
> Lightspeed 128 video card (ET6000 PCI).

man ipcs(1), ipcrm(1)

--

Steve Farrell


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