Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:40:53 -0400 From: David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, David Banning <David@Banning.com> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: after firing up X - text screen dies Message-ID: <00060614451600.00871@tracker> In-Reply-To: <20000606143529.D28905@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <20000606072300.15417.qmail@web3204.mail.yahoo.com> <393CA919.6ADB4E1F@Banning.com> <20000606143529.D28905@cs.mcgill.ca>
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On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Mathew Kanner wrote: > On Jun 06, David Banning wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, Mathew. > > > On Jun 05, David Banning wrote: > > > > I had this before - I uninstalled XFree86 and re-installed and it was > > > > fixed. > > > > This time that won't work. > > > > > > > > I'm using version 3.4 FreeBSD with XFree 3.3.6 and KDE. > > > > > > Really? This is FreeBSD? > > Yup, it is. > > > > > > I'd like you to send along a 'uname -a' and the contents of > > > your /etc/ttys, > > uname -a gives us; > > > > FreeBSD tracker 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #10: Mon May 15 10:47:01 > > GMT 2000 skytracker@tracker:/usr/src/sys/compile/tracker i386 > > > > and /etc/ttys follows; > > # > > # $Id: ttys,v 1.16.2.2 1998/09/03 22:14:37 brian Exp $ > > # @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89 > > # > > # name getty type status comments > > Oh, I get it now. You must have done an upgrade from a 2.2 > machine. I'm not sure what to tell you about this, I haven't been in > the same situation. > Maybe, to eliminate the obvious, you should grab a ttys from > the 3.4 release. I imagine that you have binaries leftover from the > 2.2 days, possibly even X? Other than that, someone else may have > some thoughts. Actually - I solved the problem by running X with 8 bit color. I am pretty sure it must be a system resources thing. 32 bit color was eating tons of memory - the only thing is - I don't understand why it's been fine in the past. Disk space is OK. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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